Russell in 1893 as a BA in mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge (photo displayed with permission of Bertrand Russell Archives McMaster University)
Fourteenth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
Due to COVID-19, this year's conference will be held online via Zoom. All times below are GMT.
Programme
Saturday January 16th
11.00-12.15: Makan Nojoumian (Edinburgh): ‘What goes wrong with infinite decisions?’
12.30-13.45: Jun Young Kim (Illinois at Chicago/Harvard): ‘Ontology meets logic: a defence of ontological pluralism’
13.45-14.30: Lunch break
14.30-15.45: Ellen Shi (LSE): ‘Is Mathematics Quasi-Empirical?’
16.00-17.45: Keynote - Susanne Bobzien (Oxford): 'Vagueness, Identity, and Modality'
Sunday January 17th
11.00-12.15: Christopher Masterman (St Andrews/Oslo): ‘An Aristotelian Actualist Argument Against Modal Symmetry’
12.30-13.45: Tom Beevers (KCL): ‘Vagueness and conditionals’
13.45-14.30: Lunch break
14.30-15.45: Fabian Pregel (Oxford): ‘Frege’s Concept of Calculus-Completeness’
16.00-17.45: Keynote - Hartry Field (NYU): 'Fictionalism and Conventionalism in Mathematics'
Call for Registration
For any further information, please contact the conference organisers Wouter Cohen, Sofia Melendez Gutierrez and Alex Fisher at cam.phil.grad.conf@googlemail.com.
