Wolfgang Smith | |
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Born | Vienna, Austria | 18 February 1930
Education | Cornell University (BA) Purdue University (MS) Columbia University (PhD) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Realism, Platonism, Neoplatonism, Aristotelianism, Traditionalism |
Main interests | Metaphysics, Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy of science |
Notable ideas | Splitting the scientific method from the scientistic philosophy, showing how the former can be joined to a Thomistic-based ontological realism, assigning to many hard sciences a place in such an ontological hierarchy; distinction between the "corporeal world" and the "physical universe"; vertical causation; irreducible wholeness |
Wolfgang Smith (born February 18, 1930) is an Austrian mathematician, physicist, philosopher of science, metaphysician, Roman Catholic and member of the Traditionalist School. He has written extensively in the field of differential geometry, as a critic of scientism and as a proponent of a new interpretation of quantum mechanics that draws heavily from premodern ontology and realism.
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