12 Jan 2018
San Diego CA, U.S.A.
"Philosophy of Mathematics as Actually Practiced" organized by Bonnie Gold, Sally Cockburn and Tom Drucker. Scheduled for Friday morning, January 12, 2018 at the US joint math meetings in January in San Diego, California. Talks are 15 minutes long, followed by discussion/question-and-answer of 10 minutes. Description: The philosophy of mathematics has often failed to account for actual mathematical practice, concentrating only on the finished product, theorems and proofs, and even then, not proofs as mathematicians give them, but the formal proofs by which they could be replaced. In the last quarter of the 20th century, many philosophers of mathematics began to be interested in considering mathematics as it is actually developed, leading to the formation, in 2009, of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice. This kind of approach requires that the philosopher of mathematics have a good understanding of mathematics, how it develops, and how it is taught and learned. It therefore requires a significant interaction with the mathematical community. This session invites contributions that discuss philosophical issues involved with mathematics as it is actually practiced. Papers that bring out issues that have not yet been discussed by philosophers but that involve philosophical issues with current mathematical practice are especially welcome. Other topics in the philosophy of mathematics will be considered as time allows. Abstracts may be submitted electronically at http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/abstracts/abstract.pl?type=jmm The deadline for submission of abstracts is Tuesday, September 26, 2017. Questions concerning the submission of abstracts should be addressed to abscoord@ams.org. I hope some of you will submit talks. Bonnie Gold, Professor Emerita, Monmouth University, bgold@monmouth.edu ------------------------------------------- Also at the JMM in San Diego: "Alternative Proofs in Mathematical Practice" organised by John Dawson. The session is intended to encompass the roles of alternative proofs in both mathematics research and teaching. Six invited speakers are already confirmed (Jemma Lorenat, Rebecca Morris, John Stilwell, Wilfried Sieg, Roger Nelsen and Kenneth Manders), but there is room to accommodate others who may be interested in contributing a talk. The deadline for submission of abstracts is also September 26. -- [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