Mark Balaguer's project in this book is extremely ambitious; he sets out to defend both platonism and fictionalism about mathematical entities. Moreover, Balaguer argues that at the end of the day, platonism and fictionalism are on an equal footing. Not content to leave the matter there, however, he advances the anti-metaphysical conclusion that there is no fact of the matter about the existenc...

In my recent book "Tropy i uniwersalia" (Tropes and Universals), I argued that Roman Ingarden’s theory of universals is in fact a kind hidden nominalism. This claim has been subjected to serious criticism by Marek Piwowarczyk, who defended position attempted flesh out the Platonic universals. reply, argue his interpretation Platonism, though it fits Plato’s doctrine, does not correspond ontolog...

This paper examines Gerhard Krüger's interpretation of Plato in light Martin Heidegger's Destruktion the Greeks and critique Platonism. I argue that new reading should be understood as a understanding Platonism, thereby broader thoughts on Western metaphysics history Being (Seinsgeschichte). The force originality response to Heidegger consist fact anticipates Krüger thus contends (1) does not a...

 Paul BERNAYS: “Platonism in Mathematics”. Url: http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/bernays/Pdf/platonism.pdf. As mentioned on the title page: “Sur le platonisme dans les mathématiques. Lecture delivered June 18, 1934, in the cycle of Conférences internationales des Sciences mathématiques organized by the University of Geneva, in the series on Mathematical Logic. Translation by: Charles Parsons”....

Does Plato have a philosophy? If so, what is it and how does he argue for it? Simple questions. But there are well-known obstacles standing in the way of their answer. First of all, Plato writes dialogues; and it is often unclear which character, if any, in a given dialogue speaks for Plato. Secondly, when a character in a dialogue advances a thesis, it is often unclear what the thesis is. And,...

1 The Dilemma of the Theistic Platonist Theists generally hold that God is the creator of all there is distinct from himself. Traditionally, the scope of God's creative activity has extended across two disjoint realms: the physical, whose chief exemplars are ordinary middle-size objects, and the mental or spiritual, encompassing such things as angels and souls. Now, many theists are also platon...