[FOM] Am I a Platonist?

[praatika@mappi.helsinki.fi]

"Platonism" appears indeed to have several different meanings for different 
people. 

A classical and influential discussion of different senses of "platonism", 
and a good starting point for discussion, is Paul Bernays' "Platonism in 
Mathematics" (1935); it is reprinted in Benacerraf's and Putnam's anthology 
(Phil. of Math.), and can be found online in the webpage of "The Bernays 
Project" (strongly recommended anyway):

http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/bernays/

A good more recent account is 

Penelope Maddy's 'The roots of contemporary Platonism', Journal of Symbolic 
Logic 54 (1989), pp. 1121-1144. 


Best

Panu



Panu Raatikainen

PhD., Docent in Theoretical Philosophy
Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
University of Helsinki
 
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