Wolfgang Smith

Wolfgang Smith
Born	(1930-02-18)18 February 1930 Vienna, Austria
Died	19 July 2024(2024-07-19) (aged 94) Ventura, California, U.S.
Education	Cornell University (BS) Purdue University (MS) Columbia University (PhD)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Realism, Platonism, Neoplatonism, Aristotelianism, Traditionalism
Main interests	Metaphysics, Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy of science
Notable ideas	Splitting the scientific method from the scientistic philosophy, showing how the former can be joined to a Thomistic-based ontological realism, assigning to many hard sciences a place in such an ontological hierarchy; distinction between the "corporeal world" and the "physical universe"; vertical causation; irreducible wholeness

Wolfgang Smith (February 18, 1930 – July 19, 2024) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, philosopher of science, metaphysician, and member of the Traditionalist School. He wrote extensively in the field of differential geometry, as a critic of scientism and as a proponent of a new interpretation of quantum mechanics that draws heavily from premodern ontology and realism.