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(2017) Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser.
Reuben Hersh and I attended Harvard College in the 1940s. It was during the Second World War, when, as it was said, "they let anyone in." The only training I had in mathematics was a first year Calculus course, and I have been trying to catch up ever since. Connections between philosophy and science may not have been as strong then as they are now. But I remember the reaction of my freshman advisor John Wild, a Thomist philosopher, when he spotted a Chemistry B course on my program. "Where," he asked, "did you get that idolatry of science?" I was stunned. "This man is really intelligent," I thought. "How could he tell from that one course that I have an idolatry of science? Because I do."
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_25
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Labov, W. (2017)., The philosophy of Reuben Hersh: a nontechnical assessment, in B. Sriraman (ed.), Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 351-354.
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