Language, Life and Logic

Seth Lloyd's popular book* on quantum computation, life and the universe impressed me when I first read it a few years ago. I had the se...

The question of the relevance of natural language to counting and calculating capacities has been raised in recent years in connection with ...

Number words come in various categories. There are the cardinal numbers (in English: one, two, three...), the ordinal numbers (first, second...

Previously I have discussed* the implications of studies which indicate that a person's basic political (and religious) orientation is i...

Following on from my previous post , here are a few more thoughts on the philosophy of mathematics and on Timothy Gowers's views. On r...

If you look up an encyclopedia entry on the philosophy of mathematics you will usually find yourself presented with a list of competing appr...

One thing I share with Ludwig Wittgenstein is a hostility towards metaphysics. Henry Le Roy Finch argues* that the origin of metaphysics l...