Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June 2016)
Idea and Motivation
On the one hand, the workshop will celebrate the five years of existence of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). On the other hand, and much more importantly, the workshop will be devoted to the question of where we should be heading in the future: what next, mathematical philosophy?
The workshop will consist of:
- a brief look back at five years MCMP;
- 16 short talks by young mathematical philosophers;
- three evening lectures on the logical empiricist background to mathematical philosophy;
- three general discussion sessions;
- and an "Ideas Session“ in which the participants will be asked to contribute new ideas for the application of logical and mathematical methods to philosophical problems and questions.
Program
Day 1 (2 June, 2016)
Time | Topic |
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09:00 - 09:30 | Registration. |
09:30 - 10:00 | Opening: Hannes Leitgeb, Stephan Hartmann, Martin Wirsing (LMU Vicepresident). |
10:00 - 10:30 | Roland Poellinger: "Five Years: Looking Back" (Watch online) Chair: Stephan Hartmann & Hannes Leitgeb |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break. |
11:00 - 11:20 | Johannes Korbmacher: "What is Truthmaker Semantics?" (Watch online) Chair: Alexander Reutlinger |
11:20 - 11:40 | Chloé de Canson: "How Bayesianism Addresses the Problem(s) of Induction" (Watch online) Chair: Alexander Reutlinger |
11:40 - 12:00 | Radin Dardashti: "What Are No-Go Theorems Good for?" (Watch online) Chair: Alexander Reutlinger |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch. |
14:00 - 14:20 | Huimin Dong: "Open Reading for Free Choice Permission: A Perspective in Substructural Logics" (Watch online) Chair: Gil Sagi |
14:20 - 14:40 | Liam Kofi Bright: "Valuing Questions" (Watch online) Chair: Gil Sagi |
14:40 - 15:00 | Ilaria Canavotto: "A Math-Philosophical Approach to Deontic Concepts" (Watch online) Chair: Gil Sagi |
15:00 - 15:30 | Discussion |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break. |
16:00 - 17:30 | Anne Siegetsleitner: "Ethics and Morality in the Vienna Circle" (Watch online) Chair: Hannes Leitgeb |
17:30 - 19:00 | General Discussion. Chair: Hannes Leitgeb |
Day 2 (3 June, 2016)
Time | Topic |
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09:00 - 10:30 | The Ideas Session. Chair: Hannes Leitgeb |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break. |
11:00 - 11:20 | Catrin Campbell-Moore: "Self-Referential Probability" (Watch online) Chair: Adam Caulton |
11:20 - 11:40 | Laurenz Hudetz: "Towards an Adequate Criterion of Structural Equivalence of Theories" (Watch online) Chair: Adam Caulton |
11:40 - 12:00 | Rossella Marrano: "Degrees of Truth Explained Away" (Watch online) Chair: Adam Caulton |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch. |
14:00 - 14:20 | Lavinia Picollo: "Formal Methods in the Study of Truth" (Watch online) Chair: Gregory Wheeler |
14:20 - 14:40 | Silvia de Toffoli: "Notations and Diagrams in Algebra" (Watch online) Chair: Gregory Wheeler |
14:40 - 15:00 | Thomas Schindler: "A Deflationary Account of Classes" (Watch online) Chair: Gregory Wheeler |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break. |
16:00 - 17:30 | Hannes Leitgeb: "Mathematical Empiricism" (Watch online) Chair: Stephan Hartmann |
17:30 - 19:00 | General Discussion. Chair: Stephan Hartmann |
19:30 | Workshop Dinner. |
Day 3 (4 June, 2016)
Time | Topic |
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11:30 - 11:50 | Marta Sznajder: "Inductive Reasoning with Conceptual Spaces: A Proposal for Analogy" (Watch online) Chair: Martin Fischer |
11:50 - 12:10 | Hans-Christoph Kotzsch: "On Some Recent Developments in the Categorical Semantics of Modal Logic" Chair: Martin Fischer |
12:10 - 12:30 | Discussion. Chair: Martin Fischer |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch. |
14:00 - 14:20 | Kristina Liefke: "Relating Theories of Intensional Semantics: Established Methods and Surprising Results" (Watch online) Chair: Lavinia Picollo |
14:20 - 14:40 | Thomas Meier: "Quo Vadis Mathematical Philosophy - An Application from The Philosophy of Linguistics" Chair: Lavinia Picollo |
14:40 - 15:00 | Discussion. Chair: Lavinia Picollo |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break. |
15:30 - 17:00 | André Carus: "Mathematical Philosophy and Leitgeb’s Carnapian Big Tent: Past, Present, Future" (Watch online) Chair: Norbert Gratzl |
17:00 - 18:30 | General Discussion. Chair: Norbert Gratzl |
Acknowledgment
The conference is supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through two Alexander von Humboldt Professorships.
Photo Credits
Header background: © Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, "Das Siegestor abends, 2013". Some right reserved: CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (desaturated from original). Source: Wikimedia Commons.