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The Platonism of Modern Physical Science: Historical Roots and “Rational Reconstruction”
Perhaps the most influential historian of science of the last century, Alexandre Koyré, famously argued that the icon of modern science, Galileo...
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On Thought Experiments, Theology, and Mathematical Platonism
In our contribution to this special issue on thought experiments and mathematics, we aim to insert theology into the conversation. There is a very...
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Mathematical platonism and the causal relevance of abstracta
Many mathematicians are platonists: they believe that the axioms of mathematics are true because they express the structure of a nonspatiotemporal,...
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Atheistic Platonism A Manifesto
Atheistic Platonism is an alternative to both theism and nihilistic atheism. It shows how any jobs allegedly done by God are better done by...
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Post-Critical Platonism
In this chapter I further develop a speculative, post-critical Platonist metaphysics based on Polanyi’s philosophical contributions. I show how such...
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The Long Shadow of Semantic Platonism
The present article is the first of a trilogy of papers, devoted to analysing the influence of semantic Platonism on contemporary philosophy of...
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The Long Shadow of Semantic Platonism
The present article is the second part of a trilogy of papers, devoted to analysing the influence of semantic Platonism on contemporary philosophy of...
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Platonism as a Way of Life
The Platonic way of life aims at transforming you into a deity. And while ancient Platonists recommended many contemplative practices for...
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Platonism and the Proto-ontology of Mathematics: Learning from the Axiom of Choice
Benacerraf’s Problem about mathematical truth displays a tension, indeed a seemingly unbridgeable gap, between Platonist foundations for mathematics...
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A Lewisian Argument Against Platonism, or Why Theses About Abstract Objects Are Unintelligible
In this paper, I argue that all expressions for abstract objects are meaningless. My argument closely follows David Lewis’ argument against the...
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Der Meister der Wesensschau Acts of Translation in Husserl’s Plato Without Platonism
The aim of this paper is understand Husserl’s “Platonism” through an understanding of how the method of eidetic variation and a phenomenological...
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Abolishing Platonism in Multiverse Theories
A debated issue in the mathematical foundations in at least the last two decades is whether one can plausibly argue for the merits of treating...
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Platonism
This entry provides a survey of the medieval phase of the history of Platonism. Spanning the period from the ninth to the fourteenth century, the...
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Theory of the Built Environment: After and Beyond Platonism
ThisPhenomenology chapterPlatonism is an attempt to overview the available theories on the built environment concerning its presence in terms of...
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Anti-Platonism in Aristotle’s Categories
I enquire into some aspects of Aristotle’s ontology in the Categories that involve disagreement with Plato’s views. In particular, I argue that...
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Nietzsche and Anti-Metaphysics: Overturning Platonism on Aesthetic Theory
There is nothing worthiest for a theory of the work of art but a narrative exposition of its reality. The problem of the theory is not simply about...
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Platonism, Renaissance
This entry provides a survey of the Renaissance phase in the history of Platonism and covers the period roughly 1440–1500. Renaissance Platonism is...
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Plato’s Ideas in Lotze’s Light—On Husserl’s Reading of Lotze’s Logik
Recent scholarship has shed more light on the relationship between Husserl and Lotze. And Husserl indeed claims of Lotze that “his inspired...