Russell in 1893 as a BA in mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge (photo displayed with permission of Bertrand Russell Archives McMaster University)
Ninth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
16th - 17th January 2016
St John's College, Cambridge
The Conference will be held on the 16th and 17th of January 2016 in St John's College, Cambridge. Our keynote speakers for the conference are Prof Richard Heck (Brown) and Prof Marcus Giaquinto (UCL).
Conference attendance bookings are now closed.
For any questions about the conference or registration, please contact the conference organisers, Fredrik Nyseth and Luke Cash at cam.phil.grad.conf@googlemail.com.
For additional information, see the Conference Facebook page.
Conference Program
Saturday 16th January
| 9:30 - 10.00 |
Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00 - 11.15 |
Oğuz Akçelik (Middle East Technical University): A Solution to the Paradox of Idealization in Modal Epistemic Langauges Respondent: Dr Arif Ahmed (Cambridge) |
| 11:15 - 11.45 |
Coffee |
| 11.45 - 13.00 |
Giulia Felappi (KCL): What is Mathematical Knowledge? Respondent: Dr Owen Griffiths (Cambridge) |
| 13.00 - 14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 - 15.15 |
Lorenzo Rossi (Oxford): Graphs, Truth, and Conditionals Respondent: Dr Catrin Campbell-Moore (Cambridge) |
| 15.15 - 15.45 |
Coffee |
| 15.45 - 17.30 |
Keynote: Marcus Giaquinto (UCL) |
| 20.00 |
Conference Dinner |
Sunday 17th January
| 10:00 - 11.15 |
Josephine Salverda (UCL): Characterizing Properties and Explanation in Mathematics Respondent: Dr Robert Trueman (Stirling) |
| 11:15 - 11.45 |
Coffee |
| 11.45 - 13.00 |
Robert Schwartzkopff (Hamburg): Number Sentences and Specificational Sentences Respondent: Prof Michael Potter (Cambridge) |
| 13.00 - 14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 - 15.15 |
Sam Roberts (Birkbeck): Potentialism and Second-Order Quantification Respondent: Dr Thomas Schindler (Cambridge) |
| 15.15 - 15.45 |
Coffee |
| 15.45 - 17.30 |
Keynote: Richard G. Heck (Brown) |
We would like to thank the Analysis Trust, the Aristotelian Society, the British Logic Colloquium, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the Mind Association, St John's College, Cambridge and the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Cambridge for their generous support of the conference.
