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Keeping Cinema’s Memory Alive in Hong Kong: An Interview with Bede Cheng, Managing Director at L’Immagine Ritrovata Asia
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‘Who are you to reject her?’: Looking for the Historical Mary Magdalene
Get PDFMary Magdalene has been the interest of many an article, book and, more recently, film. In the homilies of Gregory the Great, the apostola apostolorum (apostle of the apostles), inherits a brother and sister, a past as a sex-worker and is the inspiration for the contemplative life. This version of Mary Magdalene has persisted from Gregory the Great’s homilies until 1969 where the Catholic church severed Mary Magdalene from Luke’s unknown sinner and Mary of Bethany. But what does scripture and early Christian literature have to say about Mary Magdalene?The biblical and early church texts themselves present Mary Magdalene as a diligent, pious, brave woman, who, perhaps, was in a position to lead the Church beside or even instead of Peter
What mathematical knowledge could not be
Get PDFThis survey paper will critically discuss four different strategies to explain our knowledge of mathematics. In the first section I will outline Benacerraf ’s dilemma as put forth in Benacerraf ’s famous paper “Mathematical Truth”1 – a dilemma faced by any account of mathematical knowledge. The aim of this section is to clarify and discuss the semantic and epistemic constraints that Benacerraf (explicitly and implicitly) imposes, and show how they give rise to his well-known dilemma. In the second section I will review four strategies to overcome this dilemma as they occur in the philosophical literature. The first two platonistic strategies comply with the semantic constraint but, I will argue, provide insufficient answers to the epistemic constraint, while the other two, nominalistic strategies either reject the idea of mathematical knowledge altogether or fail the semantic constraint. In the last section, I will elicit, on the basis of my discussion of the four conceptions, what I label the fundamental assumption. I will argue that it is presupposed by all four strategies and suggest that a rejection of this assumption will give rise to a different type of platonistic response. A thorough discussion of this fifth alternative will, however, be postponed to another occasion