Abstract

DEBEVOISE, M. B. Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics Jean-Pierre Changeux and Alain Connes. Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.12, pp.289-290. ISSN 1900-6586.

The present work is Antoniak's revised and expanded edition of Matière à Pensée, first published in Paris to admiring reviews in 1989. The authors debate on the reality of mathematical ideal entities, trying to be accessible to a wide audience. This problem remains largely an open question. They are professors at the Collège de France, where they bring their own distinctive perspective about the philosophical ambiguities and contradictions of science, including remarks onethics. Their conversations not only focuses on mathematics and neuroscience; they also deals with provocative speculations about the nature of reality and what we can know about it.

Keywords : Mind; Matter; Mathematics; Mathematical ideal objects; structures; constructions; proofs; Mathematics -Epistemology; Mathematics -Ontology of mathematical knowledge; Title.

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