2nd Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
17th-18th January 2009
Conference Timetable
Saturday 17th
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09.00-10.00
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Registration |
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10.00-11.15
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Lee Walters (UCL) |
| Morgenbesser's Coin and Counterfactuals
with True Components. Respondent: Arif Ahmed |
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11.15-11.45
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COFFEE BREAK |
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11.45-13.00
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Julien Murzi (Sheffield) and Ole Hjortland (St Andrews) |
| Inferentialism and the Categoricity Problem: Reply to Raatikainen. Respondent: Peter Smith | |
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13.00-14.00 |
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14.00-15.15
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Howard Peacock (UCL) |
| Two Kinds of Ontological Commitment.
Respondent: Nathan Wildman |
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15.15-15.45
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TEA BREAK |
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15.45-17.30
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Prof. Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol) |
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On Formal and Informal
Provability |
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19.30
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Conference Dinner - Café Rouge |
Sunday 18th | |
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10.00-11.15
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Davide Rizza (Sheffield) |
| Magicada, Mathematical Explanation,
and Mathematical Realism. Respondent: Sorin Bangu |
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11.15-11.45
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COFFEE BREAK |
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11.45-13.00
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Tim Storer (Cambridge) |
| Wright, Skolem, and the Sceptic.
Respondent: Steven Methven |
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13.00-14.00 |
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14.00-15.15
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James Henry Colinn (Edinburgh) |
| In Defence of Larceny.
Respondent: Bob Hanna |
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15.15-15.45
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TEA BREAK |
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15.45-17.30
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Prof. Timothy Williamson (Oxford) |
| Metaphysical Issues in
Second-Order Modal Logic |
Ludwig Wittgenstein, on receiving
a scholarship from Trinity (1929)