The future of geography has to accommodate a constraint: academia's intellectual responsibility for school geography. This constraint can be utilized creatively, as it invites definitions that grasp the bigger picture and difference, while also integrating prior conceptions discipline. essay imagines where resulting synthesis ‘geography an open pluralist pedagogy’ potential far beyond schools c...

This paper presents pluralism as a historical process. The term pluralism frequently appears not only in the field of political philosophy but also in social sciences. In one sense, the growing literature is stimulating and enriching, nevertheless the abundance of material attempting to explain the various interpretations of pluralist theory can be convoluted and overwhelming. Despite the const...

 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...

Finitism, intuitionism, constructivism, formalism, predicativism, structuralism, objectivism, platonism; foundationalism, anti-foundationalism, first orderism; constructive type theory, Cantorian set theory, proof theory; top down principles or building up from below—framework commitments, that is, ideology, permeates the logician’s mathematical life. Such commitments set ∗This paper is based o...