> does anyone know: when did mathematics and philosophy split, btw?
Since the invention of the formal terms for "math" and "philosophy" in the mists of antiquity, pretty much. It's a division of labor thing, a given field will sometimes dress itself up using the language of another, supposedly more authentic field, e.g. Kant trying to ground apperceptions in the natural sciences in the 1780s, Weber's supposedly value-free (meaning: neither pro-Kaiser nor anti) social science, or Cold War political science cloaking neoimperial power-relations with statistical variances.
Anyone know the history of how the university academic disciplines were founded? Weren't there seven, originally, or something like that?
-- Dennis