Logic List Mailing Archive

BCAP 2012 (Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy): Philosophy of Mathematics Today

1-3 June 2012
Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy 2012: Philosophy of 
Mathematics Today

BCAP 2012 � Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy 2012
Philosophy of Mathematics Today

Friday, June 1st

Chair: Sorin Costreie
09:00 � 10:00 � Patricia Blanchette � Axioms and Conceptual Analysis in 
Frege
10:00 � 11:00 � Mircea Dumitru � On Fine on the Fregean approach to 
conceptual abstraction

11:00 � 11:30 � Coffee Break

Chair: Patricia Blanchette
11:30 � 12:30 � G�ran Sundholm � Functions
12:30 � 13:30 � Adrian Haret � Deflationist truth in mathematics

13:30 � 15:00 � Lunch Break

Chair: G�ran Sundholm
15:00 � 16:00 � David McCarty � Philosophy of Mathematics: Is it all 
False?
16:00 � 17:00 � Sorin Costreie � On Arithmetical Cognition

17:00 � 17:30 � Coffee Break
Chair: Iulian Toader
17:30 � 18:30 � Gabriel T�rziu � The Role of Aesthetic Considerations in 
the Development and Appreciation of Mathematical Knowledge

Saturday, June 2nd

Chair: Gabriel Sandu
09:00 � 10:00 � Dirk Schlimm � From Pasch to Hilbert: Metaphors for the 
foundations of mathematics
10:00 � 11:00 � Brice Halimi � Relativizing Tarskian variables

11:00 � 11:30 � Coffee Break

Chair: Dirk Schlimm
11:30 � 12:30 � Michael Detlefsen � On Axiomatic Methods and their Ideals 
of Completeness
12:30 � 13:30 � Iulian Toader � Algebra?c Closure, Un?f?cat?on, and 
Understand?ng

13:30 � 15:00 � Lunch Break

Chair: Michael Detlefsen
15:00 � 16:00 � Gabriel Sandu � IF logic and foundations of mathematics
16:00 � 17:00 � Markus Pantsar � Empirically feasible epistemology of 
mathematics
17:00 � 17:30 � Coffee Break
Chair: Marco Panza
17:30 � 18:30 � Andrea Sereni � Frege, Indispensability, and the 
Compatibilist Heresy

Sunday, June 3rd

Chair: Sebastien Gandon
09:00 � 10:00 � Sean Walsh � Classification in Mathematics: Understanding 
its Aims and Logic
10:00 � 11:00 � Walter Dean � Dedekind�s Categoricity Theorem, schematic 
induction, and mathematical communication

11:00 � 11:30 � Coffee Break

Chair: Brice Halimi
11:30 � 12:30 � Marco Panza � Abstraction and Epistemic Economy
12:30 � 13:50 � Matthias Schirn � Second-Order Abstraction, Self-Evidence 
versus Real Knowledge, and the Aftermath of Russell�s Paradox. A Critical 
Analysis

13:30 � 15:00 � Lunch Break

Chair: Mircea Dumitru
15:00 � 16:00 � Sebastien Gandon � Logicism, Anti-Psychologism and the 
Philosophy of Mathematical Practices
16:00 � 17:00 � Kit Fine � Truthmaker Semantics for Intuitionistic Logic

List of Participants:
Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame) � Axioms and Conceptual Analysis in Frege
Sorin Costreie (Romanian Academy, Ias,i Branch) � On Arithmetical 
Cognition
Walter Dean (Warwick) � Dedekind�s Categoricity Theorem, schematic 
induction, and mathematical communication
Michael Detlefsen (Notre Dame / Paris 7 � Diderot) � On Axiomatic Methods 
and their Ideals of Completeness
Mircea Dumitru (Bucharest) � On Fine on the Fregean approach to conceptual 
abstraction
Kit Fine (New York) � Truthmaker Semantics for Intuitionistic Logic
Sebastien Gandon (Blaise Pascal) � Logicism, Anti-Psychologism and the 
Philosophy of Mathematical Practices
Brice Halimi (Paris Ouest) � Relativizing Tarskian variables
Adrian Haret (Bucharest) � Deflationist truth in mathematics
David McCarty (Indiana) � Philosophy of Mathematics: Is it all False?
Markus Pantsar (Helsinki / Bucharest) � Empirically feasible epistemology 
of mathematics
Marco Panza (IHPST / Paris I) � Abstraction and Epistemic Economy
Gabriel Sandu (Helsinki) � IF logic and foundations of mathematics
Matthias Schirn (Munich, LMU / Santo Domingo, UASD) � Second-Order 
Abstraction, Self-Evidence versus Real Knowledge, and the Aftermath of 
Russell�s Paradox. A Critical Analysis
Dirk Schlimm (McGill) � From Pasch to Hilbert: Metaphors for the 
foundations of mathematics
Andrea Sereni (San Raffaele) � Frege, Indispensability, and the 
Compatibilist Heresy
G�ran Sundholm (Leiden) � Functions
Gabriel T�rziu (Romanian Academy, Ias,i Branch) � The Role of Aesthetic 
Considerations in the Development and Appreciation of Mathematical 
Knowledge
Iulian Toader (Bucharest) � Algebra?c Closure, Un?f?cat?on, and 
Understand?ng
Sean Walsh (Birkbeck College) � Classification in Mathematics: 
Understanding its Aims and Logic