Keep pulling the thread on Sean Carroll.
In their book 'The Single Universe and the Reality of Time,' Lee Smolin and Roberto Unger argue that time is a real, fundamental, and non-emergent property, implying the existence of absolute time in contradiction to standard interpretations of general relativity.
According to philosopher William Quine, even the fundamental laws of logic may need to be altered based on a better empirical understanding of the world.
Philosopher Hillary Putnam applied the "no miracles" argument, a defense of scientific realism, to mathematics as a justification for mathematical Platonism.
Max Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis posits that every conceivable, internally coherent mathematical structure has a physical existence.
According to Max Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis, a multiverse exists as a necessary consequence of every possible mathematical structure being physically instantiated.
A central thesis of the book 'The Single Universe and the Reality of Time' by Lee Smolin and Roberto Unger is that only a single universe exists, thereby rejecting all multiverse theories.
Lee Smolin and Roberto Unger propose that mathematics is a human invention that 'evokes' objective truths once a system of rules is established, rather than being a discovery of pre-existing forms.
The field of evolutionary psychology has effectively split into two groups: one conducting research published in mainstream biology journals under different names, and another, more insular group focused on 'pop' evolutionary psychology.