Wolfgang Smith
Wolfgang Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 February 1930 |
| Died | 19 July 2024 (aged 94) Ventura, California, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Education | Cornell University (BS) Purdue University (MS) Columbia University (PhD) |
| Philosophical work | |
| 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 (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.