By Honorary Professor James Franklin

Books

Franklin J, 2025, The Necessities Underlying Reality Connecting Philosophy of Mathematics, Ethics and Probability, Bloomsbury Academic, https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350467101

Franklin J; Nolan GO, 2023, Arthur Calwell, Connor Court, Redland Bay, Qld, https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Arthur-Calwell-Australian-Biographical-Monographs-20--James-Franklin-Gerry-O-Nolan_p_568.html

Franklin J, 2022, The Worth of Persons: The Foundations of Ethics, Encounter Books, New York, https://www.amazon.com.au/Worth-Persons-Foundation-Ethics-ebook/dp/B09NSZ9M2X

Franklin JW; Nolan GO; Gilchrist M, 2015, The Real Archbishop Mannix: From the Sources, Connor Court Publishing, Ballarat, http://www.connorcourt.com/catalog1/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=315

Franklin J, 2014, An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave MacMillan, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734

Franklin J; Daoud A, 2011, Proof in Mathematics, https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/proofs.html

Franklin JW, 2009, What Science Knows And How It Knows It, Encounter Books, New York, USA

Franklin J, 2007, Life to the Full Rights and Social Justice in Australia, Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd

Franklin J, 2006, Catholic Values and Australian Realities, Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd, Ballan, Vic, https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Catholic-Values-and-Australian-Realities--James-Franklin_p_190.html

Franklin JW, 2003, Corrupting the Youth, Macleay Press, Sydney, https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/contents.html

Franklin JW, 2001, The science of conjecture: evidence and probability before Pascal, Johns Hopkins University Press, USA

Franklin J; Daoud A, 1988, Introduction to Proofs in Mathematics

Book Chapters

Franklin J, 2026, 'The context of the formation of the ACHS', in Franklin J; O'Brien O; Hughes L (ed.), A Dialogue Between Past and Present: The Australian Catholic Historical Society and Sydney Catholics 1940 – 2025, Australian Catholic Historical Society, Sydney, pp. 8 - 14

Franklin J, 2025, 'Definition and Demonstration in the Category of Quantity and the Ancient Search for the Definition of Ratio', in Anstey PR; Bronstein D (ed.), Definition and Essence from Aristotle to Kant, Routledge, New York, pp. 47 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003489252-3

Franklin J, 2024, 'Bayesian Perspectives on Mathematical Practice', in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice Volume 1 4, pp. 2711 - 2726, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40846-5_84

Franklin J, 2022, 'Demonstration, Method of', in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer Nature, pp. 426 - 430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31069-5_55

Franklin J, 2021, 'Bayesian Perspectives on Mathematical Practice', in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19071-2_84-2

Franklin J, 2021, 'Quantifying Risks: Traditions and practices in medieval Western Christian world', in Heiduk M (ed.), Prognostication in the Medieval World A Handbook, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, pp. 697 - 710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110499773-041

Franklin J, 2020, 'Incomprehension of religion in Australian society', in Turner B; Freeman D (ed.), FAITH'S PLACE Democracy in a Religious World, Kapunda Press, pp. 177 - 185

Franklin J, 2020, 'Bayesian perspectives on mathematical practice', in Sriraman B (ed.), Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Springer, Cham, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19071-2_84-1

Franklin J, 2020, 'Demonstration, method of', in Jalobeanu D; Wolfe C (ed.), Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer, Cham, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9

Franklin J, 2020, 'Demonstration, Method of', in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_55-1

Franklin J, 2018, 'Pascal’s Wager and the Origins of Decision Theory: Decision-Making by Real Decision-Makers', in Bartha P; Pasternack L (ed.), Pascal's Wager, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 27 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316850398

Franklin J, 2018, 'Mathematics, core of the past and hope of the future', in Runcie CA; Brooks D (ed.), Reclaiming Education Renewing Schools and Universities in Contemporary Western Culture, Edwin H. Lowe Publishing, Sydney, pp. 149 - 162

Franklin J, 2018, 'Pascal’s Wager and the Origins of Decision Theory: Decision-Making by Real Decision-Makers', in Pascals Wager, pp. 27 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316850398.002

Franklin JW, 2017, 'Early Modern Mathematical Principles and Symmetry Arguments', in Anstey PR (ed.), The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge, New York, pp. 16 - 44, https://www.routledge.com/The-Idea-of-Principles-in-Early-Modern-Thought-Interdisciplinary-Perspectives/Anstey/p/book/9781138211582

Franklin J, 2016, 'Global and local', in Best Writing on Mathematics 2015, pp. 228 - 240

Franklin JW, 2016, 'Pre-history of probability', in Hayek A; Hitchcock C (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 33 - 49, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-probability-and-philosophy-9780199607617?cc=au&lang=en&#

Franklin JW, 2014, 'Quantity and number', in Novotný DD; Novák L (ed.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics, Routledge, New York and London, pp. 221 - 244, https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2QBgAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA221

Franklin J, 2014, 'Uninstantiated Universals and ‘Semi-Platonist’ Aristotelianism', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734.0007

Franklin J, 2014, 'Comparisons and Objections', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 101 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_8

Franklin J, 2014, 'Elementary Mathematics: The Science of Quantity', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 31 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_4

Franklin J, 2014, 'Epilogue: Mathematics, Last Bastion of Reason', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 260 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_17

Franklin J, 2014, 'Explanation in Mathematics', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 207 - 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_14

Franklin J, 2014, 'Geometry: Mathematics or Empirical Science?', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 141 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_10

Franklin J, 2014, 'Higher Mathematics: Science of the Purely Structural', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 48 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_5

Franklin J, 2014, 'Idealization: An Aristotelian View', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 222 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_15

Franklin J, 2014, 'Infinity', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 129 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_9

Franklin J, 2014, 'Introduction', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_1

Franklin J, 2014, 'Knowing Mathematics: Pattern Recognition and Perception of Quantity and Structure', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 165 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_11

Franklin J, 2014, 'Knowing Mathematics: Proof and Certainty', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 192 - 206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_13

Franklin J, 2014, 'Knowing Mathematics: Visualization and Understanding', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 180 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_12

Franklin J, 2014, 'Necessary Truths about Reality', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 67 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_6

Franklin J, 2014, 'Non-Deductive Logic in Mathematics', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 241 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_16

Franklin J, 2014, 'The Aristotelian Realist Point of View', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 11 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_2

Franklin J, 2014, 'The Formal Sciences Discover the Philosophers’ Stone', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 82 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_7

Franklin J, 2014, 'Uninstantiated Universals and ‘Semi-Platonist’ Aristotelianism', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 21 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_3

Newstead A; Franklin J, 2013, 'Indispensability Without Platonism', in Properties Powers and Structures Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, pp. 81 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203124482-13

Franklin JW, 2013, 'Non-deductive logic in Mathematics: The probability of conjectures', in Aberdein A; Dove IJ (ed.), The Argument of Mathematics, Springer Science & Business, pp. 11 - 29

Franklin JW, 2013, 'Probable opinion', in Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 349 - 372, http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/ox17th.pdf

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