On Galileo’s Platonism, Again

In Raffaele Pisano, Joseph Agassi & Daria Drozdova, Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science: Homage to Alexandre Koyré 1892-1964. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 85-104 (2017)
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Several decades ago Alexandre Koyré’s interpretation of Galileo as a Platonist of a specific sort was the dominant view, but today it is largely out of fashion. In this paper I argue that, if wrong regarding the experimental side of Galilean science, Koyré’s interpretation was substantially correct as to its crucial ontological and epistemological components. In this light I defend the view that Galileo should be seen as an advocate of a physico-mathematical version of Platonism.

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