Chapter 13. Why and How Platonism?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements xvi
5. Introduction 7
6. (I) First Part: On Husserl, Frege, Carnap and Kripke
7. Chapter 1. On the Interpretation of Frege’s Philosophy 21
8. Chapter 2. Husserl for Analytic Philosophers 63
9. Chapter 3. Husserl’s Relevance for the Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics 91
10. Chapter 4. THE STRUCTURE OF HUSSERL’S PROLEGOMENA 111
11. Chapter 5. Husserl’s Philosophy of Mathematics: its Origin and Relevance 145
12. Chapter 6. Husserl’s Conception of Physical Theories and Physical Geometry in the Time of the Prolegomena: A Comparison with Duhem’s and Poincaré’s Views 183
13. Chapter 7. Husserl and Frege on Strict Proper Names and Indexicals 215
14. Chapter 8. Platonism, Phenomenology, and Interderivability 235
15. Chapter 9. On the Interpretation of the Young Carnap’s Philosophy 261
16. Chapter 10. Necessity a posteriori and Contingency a priori in Kripke: some Critical Remarks 285
17. (II) Second Part: Some Heterodox Analytic Philosophy
18. Chapter 11. Issues in the Philosophy of Logic: an Unorthodox Approach 305
19. Chapter 12. Husserl on Analyticity and Beyond 327
20. Chapter 13. Why and How Platonism? 341
21. Chapter 14. Some Uses of Logic in Rigorous Philosophy 365
22. Chapter 15. On First- and Second Order Logic: Ontological Commitment, Logicality and Semantics 385
23. Chapter 16. On the Semantics of Mathematical Statements 399
24. Chapter 17. On Necessity and Existence 419
25. Bibliography 425
26. Name Index (without Husserl or Frege) 444
27. Subject Index (with the exception of the almost omnipresent word ‘sense’) 451