Platonism - Platonism. By Paul Elmer More. Octavo. Pp. 307. Princeton University Press, 1917. 7s. 6d. net.

Platonism in mathematics ( 1935 )

With your permission, I shall now address you on the subject of the present situation in research in the foundations of mathematics. Since there remain open questions in this field, I am not in a position to paint a definitive picture of it for you. But it must be pointed out that the situation is not so critical as one could think from listening to those who speak of a foundational crisis. Fro...

The Conceivability of Platonism†

It is widely believed that platonists face a formidable problem: that of providing an intelligible account of mathematical knowledge. The problem is that we seem unable, if the platonist is right, to have the causal relationships with the objects of mathematics without which knowledge of these objects seems unintelligible. The standard platonist response to this challenge is either to deny that...

Biolinguistics today and Platonism yesterday

This contribution expounds on ideas put forth by a group of New York City generative grammarians that language possesses certain essential features that are uncaused and adhere to an abstract ideal form. An analogy of the situation with language is made with certain natural properties of numbers. It is also noted that this situation contrasts with that of the functional structure of human color...

Platonism vs. Nominalism in Contemporary Musical Ontology

Marking Time. On the Anthropology of the Contemporary, by Paul Rabinow: Princeton University Press, 2008

Rabinow starts his search for new anthropological methods with the question of what the contemporary is. He identifies two meanings. The first is the ordinary English-language meaning: contemporary means that something occurs at the same period of time as something else. The issue is not when something happened, but that it happened at the same period of time. Cicero was the contemporary of Cae...