Introduction + Liis on the Applicability of Mathematics

New semester, same old philosophy club! We start with Liis on the problem of the applicability of mathematics and the different ways of framing it.

"We tend to categorise mathematics and the empirical sciences as different types of things. We consider them to have different ontologies, epistemologies and methods. Thus it is kind of odd that mathematics is so necessary for the doing of empirical science. This problem is known as Wigner's problem, I will go over some of the different ways of formulating this problem, consider some of the different places where the oddness could come from. I end up rejecting the ontological formulation and arguing for the epistemic-methodological one."

Picture: Convex and Concave by M. C. Escher.