Lorenzo Cocco (Warsaw University of Technology)

Contemporary physical theories are platonistic in the modest sense that they assume the existence of sets and functions. I will argue that they are also Platonistic in a stronger sense. When they are not outright pythagorean, they posit pervasive correlations between the properties of physical systems and mathematical models. I give an argument that some of these correlations must be due to an interaction. The correspondence would be miraculous without any coordination, or some other noncausal explanation. An analogy with a version of the Access Problem due to Hartry Field will be examined.