Koyré’s Platonistic Philosophy of the History of Science

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Koyré’s Platonistic Philosophy of the History of Science

Friday 29 August 2025 is the 133rd anniversary of the birth of Alexandre Koyré (born Alexandr Vladimirovich, or Volfovich, Koyra—and in Russian, Александр Владимирович, Вольфович, Койра; 29 August 1892 – 28 April 1964), who was born in Tagenrog, Russia on this date in 1892.

Koyré’s detailed histories of modern science, particularly focusing on the work of Galileo and Newton, sought to demonstrate the transition from the orderly and harmonious cosmology of antiquity and the Middle Ages to an infinite universe in which the devalorization of being leaves all entities on the same ontological level. Less well known is Koyré’s Platonism and his a priorism.

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