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Being, Appearing, and the Platonic Idea in Badiou and Plato
Open Philosophy, 2019 This essay considers the ambiguous sense in which Badiou is a Platonist. It alleviates this ambiguity by considering how two characteristics of Platonism are treated in the metaphysics of Being and Event: (1) the split between being/appearing, and (2 ...
Brander Sandy
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A plea for a modal realist epistemology [PDF]
, 2000 David Lewis’s genuine modal realism postulates the existence of concrete possible worlds that are spatio-temporally discontinuous with the concrete world we inhabit. How, then, can we have modal knowledge?
Bueno, O., Shalkowski, S.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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O niektórych aspektach platońskiej filozofii matematyki
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2015 Modern philosophers of mathematics in their discussions tend to refer to mathematical Platonism. Usually they believe that they talk about philosophical thought of Plato himself and understanding of mathematics that was introduced by the ancient ...
Bogdan Dembiński
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Platonism as a Philosophical Method [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2018 The concept of Platonism has shown variations throughout history, but generally it has been associated with those thinkers who have accepted, with different permutations, the so-called Theory of Ideas, a theory defended by those who have advocated for ...
Ignacio García Peña
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Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2019 Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith.
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Biolinguistics and Platonism: Contradictory or Consilient?
Biolinguistics, 2013 It has been argued that language is a Platonic object, and therefore that a biolinguistic ontology is incoherent. In particular, the notion of language as a system of discrete infinity has been argued to be inconsistent with the assumption of a physical (
Jeffrey Watumull
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Kripkenstein from the mathematical point of view: a preliminary survey [PDF]
, 2016 This paper deals with the problem of the impact of Kripke’s skeptical paradox on the philosophy of mathematics. By perceiving mathematics as a huge rule-following discipline, one could argue that the Kripkean nonfactualist thesis should be adopted ...
Janik, Bartosz
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Syntax without Abstract Objects [PDF]
, 2011 In line with the nominalistic denial of the existence of abstract objects, a basic theory of syntax for formal languages is developed and shown to satisfy certain fundamental ...
Kozian, Ralf
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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