Resumen de Fisica e ontologia. Le radici antiche di una discussione contemporanea
The contemporary discussion on physicalism opposes philosophers such as Alex Rosenberg, Jaegwon Kim, and Hartry Field, who believe that our ontology and epistemology could in principle be determined by physics, to other philosophers who deny the ontological and epistemological primacy of physics (for example Plantinga’s antinaturalism, Putnam’s liberal naturalism or van Frassen’s instrumentalism). This article argues that this discussion is the latest chapter of a very long history, which began in the later years of the Renaissance, when the Platonist philosophers claimed, whereas the Aristotelian party denied, that the world is intrinsically mathematical and that only a mathematized physics can account for it.
