In 2020, Daniele Molinini published a paper outlining two types of mathematical objectivity. One could say that with this paper Molinini not only separated two mathematical concepts in terms of terminology and content, but also contrasted two mathematical-philosophical contexts, the traditional-idealistic and the modern-practical. Since the first context was the theoretical basis for a large number of analyses that we find in the framework of the philosophy of mathematics, the space was now offered to re-examine such analyses in the second context. More specifically, with respect to the second context, we will analyse the strength of one of the few explicit Platonic arguments (the “Enhanced Indispensability Argument”) that seeks to justify the ontological status of mathematical objects and the central claim of mathematical Platonism about the existence of mathematical objects.
The attempt by neo-Aristotelian naturalists such as Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson to ground the objective validity of ethical principles in human nature has met with significant criticism. In particular, critics often reject the concept of life-form central to this view as incompatible with modern scientific biolo...
This article analyzes the expression
Facies totius Universi
(
FTU
), contained in
Letter
64 to Schuller, in order to offer some considerations concerning Spinoza’s philosophy of imaginative language, particularly concerning his use of examples. The most recent readings of Spinoza’s use of language make imaginat...
M. Camerini, Attilia Di Corato· JOLMA· 0 citations
In this study, the authors discuss two major topics in Proclus the Neoplatonist, which are interesting from a metaphysical and an epistemological point of view. Specifically, based on Proclus’ Commentary on Plato's Parmenides and Theology of Plato, they investigate first the metaphysical archetypal world and its projec...
In this paper, we translate and interpret the passage from Nicomachean Ethics 7.1146a21-32, in which Aristotle presents a sophistical paradox when discussing the difficulties surrounding the theme of akrasia. We base our analysis on the description of paradoxes in On Sophistical Refutations and on the explanation of th...
Abstract:In this essay, I limn the bones (with some sinews as well) of a new approach to the theorization of the particular mode of responding to Scripture known as midrash between c. the first and seventh centuries AD. The fundamental structure of the argument is that our particular way of understanding “interpretatio...
D. Boyarin· New Literary History· 0 citations
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