22-23 Apr 2016
New York NY, U.S.A.
RECONCILING NOMINALISM AND PLATONISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, April 22?23, 2016 https://fphil.org/events/ <https://fphil.org/events/> FRIDAY APRIL 22 (Philosophy Hall, Room 716) 14:00?14:15 Achille Varzi (Columbia University), Marco Panza (IHPST) Welcome and Introduction 14:15-15:45 John Burgess (Princeton University) Reconciling Anti-Nominalism and Anti-Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics 15:45?16:00 Break 16:00-17:30 Haim Gaifman (Columbia University) Reconfiguring the Problem: "Platonism" as Objective, Evidence-transcendent Truth 17:30-19:00 Sébastien Gandon (Université Blaise Pascal) Describing What One is Doing. A Philosophy of Action Based View of Mathematical Objectivity SATURDAY, APRIL 23 (Philosophy Hall, Room 716) 9:30?11:00 Mirna D?amonja (University of East Anglia and IHPST) An Unreasonable Effectiveness of ZFC Set Theory at the Singular Cardinals 11:00?11:30 Break 11:30?13:00 Hartry Field (New York University) Platonism, Indispensability, Conventionalism 13:00?15:00 Lunch 15:00-16:30 Justin Clarke-Doane (Columbia University) The Benacerraf Problem in Broader Perspective 16:30?17:00 Break 17:00-18:30 Michele Friend (George Washington University) Is the Pluralist Reconciliation between Nominalism and Platonism too Easy? 18:30 Conclusions -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam