Naturalized Platonism Versus Platonized Naturalism

Linsky, Bernard; Zalta, Edward N.

doi:10.2307/2940786

Cited by 110 publications

(46 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…However, there are a variety of strategies that a descriptivist can employ to make their account of formal properties consistent with naturalism. See, for instance, Linsky and Zalta (1995) and Maddy (1990). distinctive feature of logical (as opposed to extra-logical) consequences, this means descriptivist accounts provide a superior explanation of intuitive difference between the logical and the extra-logical.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Logic for morals, morals from logic

Kurth

2010

Philos Stud

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The need to distinguish between logical and extra-logical varieties of inference, entailment, validity, and consistency has played a prominent role in metaethical debates between expressivists and descriptivists. But, to date, the importance that matters of logical form play in these distinctions has been overlooked. That's a mistake given the foundational place that logical form plays in our understanding of the difference between the logical and the extra-logical. This essay argues that descriptivists are better positioned than their expressivist rivals to provide the needed account of logical form, and so better able to capture the needed distinctions. This finding is significant for several reasons: First, it provides a new argument against expressivism. Second, it reveals that descriptivists can make use of this new argument only if they are willing to take a controversial-but plausible-stand on claims about the nature and foundations of logic.The need to distinguish between logical and extra-logical varieties of inference, entailment, validity, and consistency has played a prominent role in meta-ethical debates between expressivists and descriptivists. These intuitive distinctions are not of mere theoretical interest: We take logical inferences to have a privileged place in thought and inquiry; we see logical errors as involving a special type of failing and as inviting a distinctive sanction. So it's important that we be able to explain what distinguishes these logical notions from their extra-logical counterparts. The

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Logic for morals, morals from logic

Kurth

2010

Philos Stud

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Zalta and Linsky [1995] have defended a similar view: they claim that "there are as many abstract objects of a certain sort as there possibly could be." But their conception of abstract objects is rather unorthodox, and for this reason, their view is quite different, in several respects, from FBP.9 Moreover, they have not used FBP in the way that I have, arguing that platonists can solve the traditional problems with their view if and only if they endorse FBP.…”

Section: Anti-platonistic Realism (Physicalism and Psychologism)mentioning

confidence: 95%

Realism and Anti-Realism in Mathematics

Balaguer¹

2009

Philosophy of Mathematics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…This is what Bernard Linsky and Edward Zalta have explicitly suggested. Their aim is to provide for an appropriate characterization of the notion of mathematical object to be used as the basis for a platonist account of mathematics, where this is supposed to apply to actual mathematical theories as they are, rather than as they may be according to any suggested recasting of them in new terms (Linsky andZalta, 1995, 2006;Zalta, 1999Zalta, , 2000. According to Zalta, this characterization lays the ground for a neo-logicist programme, although of a substantially different form from the one Hale and Wright propose.…”

Section: Linsky Zalta and 'Object Theory': Mathematics And Logic (Ormentioning

confidence: 99%

Plato's Problem

Panza

Sereni

2013

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-0-230-36548-3 hardback ISBN 978-0-230-36549-0 paperbackThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.

show abstract

Naturalized Platonism Versus Platonized Naturalism

Cited by 110 publications

References 0 publications

Logic for morals, morals from logic

Logic for morals, morals from logic

Realism and Anti-Realism in Mathematics

Plato's Problem

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About