An Unexpected Journey into Everyday Thinking
Prologue – From Where All This Started
I recently read Philosophy of Physics – Space and Time written by the philosopher Tim Maudlin.[1] It is a short, dense book intended to be readable by everyone, but, as usual with these types of works, it requires very careful attention from the readers and effort to be unpacked, as we would wish from an excellent philosophical essay. Despite its shortness, Philosophy of Physics has been one of the most interesting readings on philosophy of science I have had in quite some time, not only because it had been a long time since I read a book or research paper in this philosophical area.[2] There are remarkable considerations in Maudlin’s work that would be worth an essay on their own, but here I am mentioning this reading because it has been the philosophical starting point for this essay, because it clearly posed specific ontological and epistemological questions when analyzing diagrams, mind maps and sketches.