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Philosophical roots of mathematical logic

4-6 Apr 2022
Torino, Italy

CFP: Philosophical roots of mathematical logic
4-6 April 2022
Torino, Italy

Nineteenth-century logic is known to have relied heavily on the background
of post-Kantian philosophy to address issues such as the investigation of
the conditions of thought, the characterization of abstract objects, the
delimitation of objective from subjective knowledge,  the systematic of
scientific methodologies. The philosophical tradition of logic overlapped
with the development of modern mathematical logic from the first versions
of the algebra of logic in the mid nineteenth-century until inquiries into
the logical foundations of mathematics from the early 1930s. This very fact
strongly suggests that there might have been significant intersections
between what appear now as separate disciplines, and raises the question of
whether philosophical roots can be traced in the development of
mathematical logic. Several studies have shed light on the philosophical
background of key figures in the history of modern logic, including Richard
Dedekind, Gottlob Frege, Charles Sanders Peirce. And it has been shown that
even some of the main proponents of the modern conception, such as Russell
and Carnap, engaged with philosophical conceptions of logic in the wake of
the nineteenth-century tradition at least for part of their works. However,
much remains to be investigated.

The aim of this conference is to foster further exchanges between those who
are doing scholarly research on the history of logic in the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries from various perspectives, including those who
focus on the philosophical tradition of the nineteenth century and its
developments in neo-Kantianism and phenomenology, historians of logic and
of related mathematical disciplines, as well as philosophers who are
interested in the epistemological issues surrounding modern mathematical
logic.

We welcome abstract proposals (max 500 words) prepared for blind review.
Possible topics include:

- Syllogistic in mathematical logic, including the algebra of logic
tradition (De Morgan, Boole) and the Peano School

- Leibnizian themes in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century logic

- The logical contributions of post-Kantian philosophers, such as Johann
Friedrich Herbart,  Jakob Friedrich Fries, Adolf Friedrich Trendelenburg

- The logics and influences of the philosophical tradition, in particular
Hermann Lotze and Bernard Bolzano

- Traditional part-whole theories before modern mereology

- The philosophical views of nineteenth-century mathematicians, including
Hermann Grassmann, Bernhard Riemann, Richard Dedekind

- The philosophical background of logicism, in particular Frege’s and
Russell’s

- Logic as conceptual analysis and as investigation of the inference rules
of formalized systems

- Early twentieth-century philosophies of logic in neo-Kantianism,
Husserlian phenomenology and logical positivism

Invited speakers:

Arianna Betti, Guido Bonino, Stefania Centrone, Laura Crosilla, Luca
Guidetti, Leila Haaparanta, Mirja Hartimo, Jeremy Heis, An­nika Kanckos,
Nikolay Milkov, Pierluigi Minari, Erich Reck, Georg Schiemer, Wilfried
Sieg, Göran Sundholm

Important dates:

Deadline: 28 February 2022

Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2022

Conference: 4-6 April 2022

Please send your submissions to: francesca.biagioli@unito.it

Venue and format:

The conference will take place at the University of Turin, Italy. It is
planned as a hybrid event with face-to-face sessions and one online
session. When submitting an abstract proposal, please specify in the
accompanying email whether you are currently planning to attend in person
or online.

Please address any questions about the CFA or the conference to one of the
organizers: Francesca Biagioli (francesca.biagioli@unito.it), Paola Cantù (
paola.cantu@univ-amu.fr), Paolo Maffezioli (paolo.maffezioli@unito.it)
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