Wolfgang Smith

Wolfgang Smith
Born	(1930-02-18) 18 February 1930 (age 94) Vienna
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, in Vienna, Austria) is a 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.