copenhagen vs many worlds, philosophy of mathematics, and reductionism: part 1

[spoonless]

Of all of the questions in philosophy, I believe that by far the most interetsting and deep is "what is mathematics?" I feel like the majority of questions in philosophy are easy, and amount to just getting the language straight (I wouldn't go so far as to just call them games though). Many philosophers think there are deep unanswered questions

Comments

[killtacular]

Very interesting post, and I like how you kind of divide up the worldviews into the broadly "realist" and broadly "anti-realist" camps. I've kind of had thoughts along those lines before, so its nice to see. And while I, of course, think there are interesting philosophical problems others than the ones you mention and that their are interesting philosophical issues are just pseudoproblems resulting from confusions of language, I think it is also worth pointing out that most philosophers are physicalists/materialists of some sort or other and so would agree with you there.

However, at least for most anti-realist types now, I think, the claim is not that there isn't anything other than our sense data, or that all that exists are what are necessary for describing our perceptions. The idea is that we just don't have any epistemic justification for believing in those things we can't observe. So it is more like your second option, and that for the things we don't observe we just have no evidence for (or against) them and so we lack any