Wittgenstein+PhilMath

Wittgenstein+PhilMath

A two-day in-person dual workshop at IHPST Paris, conference room

Financed by the Research Council of Norway

https://www.uib.no/en/mast

27-28 June 2024

Thursday 27 June

12.50 Welcome

13-14.15 Pierre Fasula (Paris): The Mathematician as a Normative Animal

14.20-15.35 Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen (Univ. of Southern Denmark): Perspicuous Overviews of the Moral? Wittgenstein and Descriptive Moral Theories

Coffee break

15.50-17.05 Kevin Cahill (Bergen): Wittgensteinian Political Quietism

17.10-18.25 Sorin Bangu (Bergen): Wittgenstein on Assimilationism, Scientism and Mathematics

Friday 28 June

9.45 Coffee 

10-11.15 Alex Paseau (Oxford): What Past Mathematicians Talked About When They Talked About Mathematics

11.20-12.35 Rob Knowles (Swansea): The Problem of Mathematical Explanation

Lunch break

14.35-15.50 Francesca Poggiolesi (Paris): Mathematical Explanations: An Analysis Via Formal Proofs and Conceptual Complexity

16.00 End of workshop

Panelists:

Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Paris)

Severin Schroeder (Reading/Oxford)

Benedict Eastaugh (Warwick)

David Waszek (ENS Paris)

For abstracts please email [email protected]

Registration required: by email to [email protected], by 25 June 9 am CET. Limited seating.