Russell in 1893 as a BA in mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge (photo displayed with permission of Bertrand Russell Archives McMaster University)
Thirteenth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
18th-19th January 2020
St John's College, Cambridge
The Conference will be held on the 18th and 19th of January 2020 in St John's College, Cambridge. Our keynote speakers for the conference are Lavinia Picollo (UCL) and Agustín Rayo (MIT).
Conference Program
Saturday 18th January
| 9.30-10.00 |
Registration |
| 10.00-11.15 |
James Skinner (University of St Andrews): “Another Way Logic Might Be Normative” Response: Arif Ahmed (Cambridge) |
| 11.15-11.45 |
Coffee |
| 11.45-13.00 |
Samuel Elgin (University of California, San Diego): “Counterfactual Logic and the Necessity of Mathematics” Response: Alex Roberts (Cambridge) |
| 13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00-15.15 |
Ethan Brauer (Ohio State University): “The Modal Logic of Potential Infinity: Branching vs. Convergent Possibilities” Response: Wes Wrigley (Oxford) |
| 15.15-15.45 |
Coffee |
| 15.45-17.30 |
Keynote - Lavinia Picollo (UCL): “Mathematical internal realism and the problem of determinacy” (joint work with Dan Waxman) |
| 19.30 |
Conference Dinner |
Sunday 19th January
| 10.00-11.15 |
Benjamin Faltasek (Texas A&M University): “A Modal-Epistemic Problem for Hume’s Principle” Response: Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge) |
| 11.15-11.45 |
Coffee |
| 11.45-13.00 |
Thomas Randriamahazaka (École Normale Supérieure Paris): “A neo-Meinongian logic based on λ-abstraction” Response: Lukas Skiba (University of Hamburg) |
| 13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00-15.15 |
Sara Ayhan (Ruhr University Bochum): “What is the meaning of proofs? A Fregean distinction in proof-theoretic semantics" Respose: Owen Griffiths (Cambridge)
|
| 15.15-15.45 |
Coffee |
| 15.45-17.30 |
Keynote - Agustin Rayo (MIT): “On the open-endedness of logical space” |
There will be the following talks by graduate students:
| Speaker |
Title of Talk |
| Sara Ayhan (Ruhr University Bochum) |
“What is the meaning of proofs? A Fregean distinction in proof-theoretic semantics” |
| Ethan Brauer (Ohio State University) |
“The Modal Logic of Potential Infinity: Branching vs. Convergent Possibilities” |
| Samuel Elgin (University of California, San Diego) |
“Counterfactual Logic and the Necessity of Mathematics" |
|
Benjamin Faltasek (Texas A&M University) |
“A Modal-Epistemic Problem for Hume’s Principle” |
|
Thomas Randriamahazaka (École Normale Supérieure Paris) |
“A neo-Meinongian logic based on λ-abstraction” |
|
James Skinner (University of St Andrews) |
“Another Way Logic Might Be Normative" |
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We are very grateful to the Aristotelian Society, the Analysis Trust, the British Logic Colloquium, the Mind Association, and St John's College for their generous support of the conference.
For any further information, please contact the conference organisers Benjamin Marschall, Wouter Cohen and Sofia Melendez Gutierrez, at cam.phil.grad.conf@googlemail.com.
