[FOM] Platonism and Progress in Philosophy

[Robert Lindauer]

> Charles Silver wrote:
>> 
>> Could you please furnish one or more examples of philosophical progress
>> in the past hundred years, such that the result of that progress is not
>> scientific, but still remains under the purview of philosophy?
> 
> 

The notion "considered progress" as in "X is considered progress" is a purpose or personality relative question.

Obviously in the last 100 years philosophy has made great progress, witness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_philosophy

compare the relatively limited 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#20th_century

The question itself betrays a lack of appreciation for the kinds of things that philosophers find important without any apparent argument or reason for said lack.


Aloha,

Robbie Lindauer