Philosopher
Wolfgang Smith
Overview
Wolfgang Smith (February 18, 1930 – July 19, 2024) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, philosopher of science, metaphysician, and member of the Traditionalist School. He wrote 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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Philosophers who discussed Wolfgang Smith
Ideas Wolfgang Smith discusses
- Philosophical realism
- Cartesianism
- Philosophy
- Hylomorphism
- Scientism
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Metaphysics
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Ontology
- Physics
- Plato
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Purdue University
- Quantum mechanics
- Religion
- Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
- Scientific method
- Theory of relativity
- Aristotle
- Philosophy of science
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Interpretations of quantum mechanics
- Vienna
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of metaphysics.