Silvia Jonas | How Mathematics Shapes Reality

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How do language and mathematics correspond to reality? Philosopher Silvia Jonas explores the limits of language in the everyday and how mathematics shapes the ways we conceptualise reality.

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Silvia Jonas is a philosopher at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) working in metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, and epistemology. She is author of Ineffability and its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophy, and is currently working on a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, investigating how mathematics shapes the way in which philosophers conceptualise reality.

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