[PHILOS-L] SIFA-SISFA Workshop Platonism in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mathematics: Ancient and Contemporary || 4-5 May 2026 || Rome

[Sofia Bonicalzi]

SIFA-SISFA Workshop

Platonism in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mathematics:

Ancient and Contemporary

4-5 May 2026

Sala Professori, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts

via Ostiense 236, Roma Tre University, Rome

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The workshop explores the lasting influence and shifting interpretations of Platonism in the history of metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics, tracing its development from ancient origins to contemporary transformations.

Keynotes
Francesco Ademollo (Università di Firenze)
The Metaphysics of Sensible Particulars in Plato
Commentator: Roberto Granieri (Università Roma Tre)

Francesca Boccuni (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Neologicism, Structuralism, and the Unbearable Lightness of Being a Mathematical Object
Commentator: Ludovica Conti (Universität Wien)

Anna Marmodoro (Saint Louis University)
Plato Against Constitution
Commentator: Matteo Morganti (Università Roma Tre)

Nikolas Zaks (FNRS/Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
A Platonic Architecture for a Philosophy of Qualification
Commentator: Laura Marongiu (Università di Parma)

Selected Speakers
Pierre Adam (Université de Lille)
Mathematical Plenitude and its Platonic Roots

Miriam Bowen (University of St. Andrews)
Abstract Probabilities and Rational Ideals: Defending a Platonist Framework

Pietro Lampronti (LMU Munich)
Reductive Fundamentality, Abstractionism, and Platonism

John Proios (University of Chicago)
Wandering Thought: Method before Metaphysics in the Deductions of Plato’s Parmenides

Chiara Salamone and Manon Prost (Université de Strasbourg)
Frege’s Mathematical Platonism as Seen by Wittgenstein: Did Frege Inherit Platonism from Plato?

Andrea Visintini (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Noneist Five-dimensionalism

Discussants:
Daniele Bondioli
Sofia Bonicalzi
Riccardo Chiaradonna
Mario De Caro
Francesco Fronterotta
Patrizia Masoero
Priscilla Pallante
Lorenzo Zemolin

Organization and Contacts: sofia.b...@uniroma3.it; roberto....@uniroma3.it

Sponsors

SIFA Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica
SISFA Società Italiana di Storia della Filosofia Antica
(with the support of the SFR Società Filosofica Romana).

Sofia

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Sofia Bonicalzi

Associate Professor

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo

Università Roma Tre

via Ostiense, 234-236, Room 206, II Floor

Associate Researcher

CVBE - Cognition, Value and Behavior

LMU Munich

President of SIFA

Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy/Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica

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