despite the often false impression that the analytic philosophy as an anti-metaphysical movement has nothing to do with metaphysics, there can be found good reasons to grant the metaphysical dispositions of analytic philosophers, and thereby, to minimize the anti-metaphysical nature of analytic philosophy in its all phases. since analytic philosophy is a historical movement the main nature of w...

This paper reflects on the importance of pagan Platonism to one of its most sympathetic Christian interpreters, Augustine of Hippo. Its goal is to uncover what Platonism meant to Augustine and why it mattered so much to him throughout his long career. To that end the essay begins by considering salient developments in the study of Platonism over the last fifty years, with particular attention t...

Mark Balaguer has, in his Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics [Balaguer, 1998], given us an intriguing new brand of platonism, which he calls, plenitudinous platonism, or more colourfully, full-blooded platonism. In this paper, I argue that Balaguer’s attempts to characterise full-blooded platonism fail. They are either too strong, with untoward consequences we all reject, or too weak, ...

In pursuing the question of incarnation, it must be noted from the beginning that what is at stake is Platonism. More specifically, my concern will be the relationship of Christian theology to Platonism. It is a curious phenomenon that here, now, on the brink of the twentyfirst century, the question of Christian theology’s relationship to Platonism remains an orienting and fundamental theme of ...

Gottlob Frege is often called a "platonist". In connection with his philosophy we can talk about platonism concerning three kinds of entities: numbers, or logical objects more generally; concepts, or functions more generally; thoughts, or senses more generally. I will only be concerned about the first of these three kinds here, in particular about the natural numbers. I will also focus mostly o...

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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...

Abstract Recent scholarship has shed more light on the relationship between Husserl and Lotze. And indeed claims of Lotze that “his inspired interpretation Platonic doctrine Forms […] put up a bright first determined all further studies” (2002a, 297). In this paper I will try to answer question what exactly saw in “bright light”—the being much complicated than “Platonism.” As show, misreads Pla...