What are the objects of science? Are they just the things in our scientific experiments that are located in space and time? Or does science also require that th

According to platonists, entities such as numbers, sets, propositions and properties are abstract objects. But abstract objects lack causal powers and a locatio

What are the objects of science? Are they just the things in our scientific experiments that are located in space and time? Or does science also require that th

Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of

Plato’s view that mathematics paves the way for his philosophy of forms is well known. This book attempts to flesh out the relationship between mathematics an