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...

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...

Katz 's new clothes Katz's new view about language and linguistics comes in two parts: platonism and nonreductionism. Those of us who have been skeptical about the empirical basis for claims that have arisen from within linguistics will welcome Katz's defection to our side in respect of platonism, but we will be dismayed by his refusal to adopt the rest of our methodology concerning reductionis...

Abstract About sixty years ago, Hans Albert criticized economists for their “model platonism”, a methodological attitude that immunizes theoretical models against empirical criticism. Since then, economics has taken an turn; yet, model platonism lingers on. The root of the problem is economists’ reluctance to distinguish explicitly between law-like and situational assumptions models. Without th...