The Religious Roots of Mathematics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2351814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C K Raju (0000-0002-5960-7785, Centre for Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi; Centre for Computer Science, MCRP University Bhopal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 95-97 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276406023002147 |
| OpenAlex | W2046138182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
essentialism where the essences of substances are given by their chemical composition. Thus, for Putnam, the fact that water = H2O is true in all possible worlds in which water exists, and hence is a necessary truth about water (and so modal reasoning, in this case, demonstrates the 'truth' of scientific realism). Modal logic has thus resurrected the mediaeval notion that there are de re necessities (necessary properties of things). This represents something of a revival of metaphysics, especially Aristotelianism, in contemporary analytic philosophy, and runs counter to the Enlightenment doctrine - typified by Hume's philosophy - that necessity is 'all in the mind'. However, the idea of possible worlds may have other, less metaphysical, uses. For if we accept that the idea of a world is never simply a logical notion but always a cultural and a historical one, then one way of conceiving the conceptual terrain of global culture is to see it as grounded in a set of interlinking possible worlds - some of which are 'accessible' from worlds geographically and/or culturally adjacent to them, some of which are not. If the epistemology of global culture is conceived as requiring a cultural-ontological mapping of the interrelations between possible worlds, then the problems involved in understanding the architectonics of global knowledge can be stated somewhat differently: is there a possible
Doctrine · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Essentialism · Metaphysics · Possible world · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Study and Philosophy of Religion
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |