[Anecdote: I lent a copy of Life Itself
to the aforementioned category theorist at my grad school, to see what he
thought of it. He said he found the book both fascinating and very
difficult to get a handle on. Now, this is a guy who thinks in morphisms
and forgetful functors, and is well schooled in the history and philosophy of
mathematics and logic, and is himself a holder of some unorthodox
philosophical views. And he couldn't get a handle on Rosen or the
significance of his thinking for foundational issues in philosophy.
I think this is a testament to the fact that Rosen wasn't really
interested in writing for other people. Those of us interested in
Rosen really need to reconceptualize Rosen for different audiences and
different contexts.]
I had
earlier written "I think this a testament not to the
fact....",
Kevin