
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Pages: 172-193
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048158362
Full citation:
, "Problems with prolifigate Platonism", in: Knowledge, cause, and abstract objects, Berlin, Springer, 2001


Problems with prolifigate Platonism
pp. 172-193
in: , Knowledge, cause, and abstract objects, Berlin, Springer, 2001Abstract
Variations on a new platonist epistemology have been offered recently. Mark Balaguer (1995, 1998a & 1998b) offers one version, and Bernard Linsky and Edward Zalta (1995) another. Although there are important differences between their proposals, what they have in common is the suggestion that if there is a plenitude of mathematical entities, then there is no problem about acquiring knowledge of them. I first discuss Balaguer's proposal and then discuss the extent to which Linsky and Zalta's account faces similar problems.1
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Pages: 172-193
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048158362
Full citation:
, "Problems with prolifigate Platonism", in: Knowledge, cause, and abstract objects, Berlin, Springer, 2001