PARIS-ARCHE' WORKSHOP: Abstract Objects in Semantics and the Philosophy of Mathematics
Paul McCallion
Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques
(CNRS/Paris1/ENS)
Chaire d’Excellence "Ontological Structure and Semantic Structure"
Arché, Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and
Epistemology - University of St. Andrews
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We are happy to announce the Joint Paris-Arché Workshop
ABSTRACT OBJECTS IN SEMANTICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
Taking place at the École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, Paris
on Thursday, February 28 (salle R), Friday, February 29 (Amphi Rataud) and
Saturday, March 1 (Amphi Rataud), 2008.
The workshop has been extended to a third day, due to the high number of
excellent submissions.
Organizers:
Alexandra Arapinis (IHPST-CNRS/Paris1/ENS)
Francesco Berto (IHPST-University of Venice)
Paul McCallion (Arché-University of St.Andrews)
FULL PROGRAMME:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28: Salle R
Morning session
10:00 Benjamin Schnieder (Humboldt University, Berlin)
"Antinomies and Reference"
11:20 Marcus Rossberg (Arché-University of St.Andrews)
"Logical Consequence for Nominalists"
Afternoon session
13:45 Giorgio Volpe (University of Bologna)
"Propositions as Pleonastic Entities"
14:45 Andrea Sereni (Universities of Parma and Milan-San Raffaele)
"On the Indispensable Premises of the Indispensability Argument"
16:00 Michael Gabbay (King’s College, London)
Murdoch Gabbay (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
"Arbitrary Objects in Mathematics and Semantics"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29: Amphi Rataud
Morning session
10:00 Crispin Wright (Arché-University of St.Andrews)
"The Metaphysics of Abstraction"
11:20 Matti Eklund (Cornell University)
"Neo-Fregeanism and the Neutralist Conception of Quantification"
Afternoon session
14:30 Jacques Dubucs (IHPST-CNRS/Paris1/ENS)
Title TBA
15:30 Daniel Isaacson (University of Oxford)
"Objectivity Without Objects : the Case of Mathematics"
17:00 Friederike Moltmann (IHPST-CNRS/Paris1/ENS)
"Natural Language and Kinds of Abstraction"
SATURDAY, MARCH 1: Amphi Rataud
Morning session
10:00 Dale Jacquette (Pennsylvania State University)
"Towards an Inherence Philosophy of Mathematical Entities"
11:20 Paul McCallion (Arché-University of St.Andrews)
"Term Formalism Revisited"
Afternoon session
14:30 David Liggins (University of Manchester)
"Pretence Theories of Abstract Objects: Against the Autism Objection"
15:30 Marie Duzi (Ostrava Technical University)
Bjorn Jespersen (Delft University of Technology)
Pavel Materna (Czech Academy of Sciences)
"Computational Procedures and Naming of Abstract Entities"
17:00 Ian Rumfitt (Birkbeck College, London)
"Arithmetical Truth and Applications of Arithmetic"
Alternate speakers:
Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol)
"Singular Terms, Free Variables, and Platonism"
Michael Gabbay
Murdoch Gabbay
"Towards a Proof-Theoretic Approach to Plurality"
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