Circle-U Conference in the Philosophy of Mathematics

The Department of Philosophy at King’s College London will host a conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics, funded by Circle-U, an alliance of nine leading European universities, and organized by King’s College London, the University of Oslo, the University of Pisa, and the University of Vienna. The event is part of a project exploring the genealogy of mathematical concepts: their origins, development, and philosophical implications. 

The conference will take place on room K3.11, Strand Campus, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS on the 28th and 29th October 2024. The full program can be checked below. All attendants must be registered in advance. If you would like to attend, please fill in this minimal form: https://forms.gle/xT7aXaS7PjuBQpgAA 

Program: 

28/10/2024 

10-11 Leon Horsten, On the Strength of Set Theoretic Reflection Principles 

Coffee 

11:30-12:30 Silvia De Toffoli, Mathematical Justification without Proof 

Lunch 

14-15 ØysteinLinnebo, Constructional ontology and criteria of identity 

15:15-16:15 Carolin Antos, The explanatoriness of foundations 

Coffee 

16:45-17:45 Hannes Leitgeb, Semantic Analyticity and Carnapian Logicism 

18-18:30 Roundtable on PhD Funding Opportunities 

29/10/2024 

9:30-10:30 A.C. Paseau, Some Metaphysical Problems for Plenitudinous Platonism 

Coffee 

10:45-11:45 Concha Martinez-Vidal, Do We Need to Fix the Concept of Mathematical Proof? 

12-13 Tim Button 

Lunch 

14:30-15:30 Chris Scambler, Modal Logicism

15:45-16:45 Cezary Cieslinski, Truth classes via approximations