5th Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
21st - 22nd January 2012
The conference will be held on the 21st and 22nd of January 2012 in the Gordon Cameron lecture theatre at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Our keynote speakers for the conference are Prof. Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Southern California) and Prof. Delia Graff Fara (Princeton University).
To register for the conference, please complete this form.
Conference Programme
Saturday 21st January
10.00 - 11.15 - Alex Malpass, Bristol
- The Supervaluational Thin Red Line
11.15 - 11.45 - Coffee
11.45 - 13.00 -
Jönne Speck, Birkbeck College, London
- On the Philosophy of Truth-Theoretic Groundedness
13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 15.15 - Ivan Kasa, Stockholm and Aberdeen -
On Field's Epistemological Argument Against Platonism
15.15 - 15.45 - Coffee
15.45 - 17.30 - Prof Gabriel Uzquiano, Southern California - Indefinite Extensibility Revisited
Sunday 22nd January
10.00 - 11.15 - David Race, Leeds - Against the Indispensability Argument: Why Applicability Prevents Ontological Conclusions
11.15 - 11.45 - Coffee
11.45 - 13.00 - Peter Fritz, Oxford
- Consequence and Actuality
13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 15.15 - Daniel Molto, York
- Relative Identity Logic: Implications for Ontology and Naming
15.15 - 15.45 - Coffee
15.45 - 17.30 - Prof Delia Graff Fara, Princeton - Generalized Counterpart Theory
For any further information, please contact the conference organisers,
Rob Trueman and Owen Griffiths at cam.phil.grad.conf@googlemail.com
We are grateful for generous support from the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, on receiving
a scholarship from Trinity (1929)