Number and numbers
by Alain Badiou · first published 2008
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…around and rejects the idea that reductionism can turn logic into psychology, inventing phenomenology in the process and authoring the root source of modern continental philosophy. - Alain Badiou's _Number and Numbers_. If you need a Maoist continental philosopher who would disdain the entire Internet Bayesian rationalist community for being a bunch of squishy relativists who don't genuinely believe in capital-T Truth…
on “The Mathematician (1947)” ↗> The people who do are continental philosophers who tend to get laughed out of the room And for good reason. For example, philosophers (Zizek included) raved about Badiou's Number and Numbers. It is a nice history of the approaches to formalizing the concept of number, but there is no philosophy there. As soon as Badiou or Derrida or any other continental philosophers try to do anything else…
on “Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (2002)” ↗I read Badiou's Number and Numbers. The first half was a good introduction to the history of attempts to axiomatize various kinds of numbers. The second half was a so-so introduction to surreal numbers. The book seems like some notes that…
on “Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Happiness [pdf]” ↗