{"id":468,"date":"2020-04-02T08:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/?p=468"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:08:00","slug":"mathematics-and-ethics-the-two-sciences-with-demonstrable-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/2020\/mathematics-and-ethics-the-two-sciences-with-demonstrable-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics and Ethics: The Two Sciences with Demonstrable Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Professor James Franklin<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Synopsis: Where empirical sciences like physics and sociology rely on observation and experiment, abstract sciences like mathematics and ethics don\u2019t. The basic truths in them are accessible by pure thought which reveals necessary truths about reality (though some wisdom is needed when it comes to applications).\u00a0Plato was right: immersion in mathematics induces an understanding of the necessities underpinning reality, an understanding that is essential for distinguishing objective ethics from tribal custom. Equality, for example, is an abstract concept which is foundational for both mathematics and ethics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;418&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]James Franklin is Honorary Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales, where he has taught mathematics since 1981 and served many years as Professor of Mathematics. He is Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Ethics and Society at Notre Dame University, Sydney and Editor of the\u00a0<em>Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society<\/em>. A prolific author, his books include<em>\u00a0Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia<\/em>;<em>\u00a0An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics<\/em><em>, What Science Knows: And How It Knows It<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Catholic Values and Australian Realities<\/em>. He was awarded the 2005 ACU Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics, partly for research on the parallels between mathematics and ethics. His current work is on the worth of persons as the foundational concept in ethics.[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Watch the event&#8221; style=&#8221;outline&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; color=&#8221;white&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fas fa-video&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:%23video|||&#8221; el_class=&#8221;register-now&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_id=&#8221;video&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;100px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Watch the event&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/405710905?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Where empirical sciences like physics and sociology rely on observation and experiment, abstract sciences like mathematics and ethics don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satcathedral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}