Structuralism in Physics and Mathematics

September 21, 2012 - September 23, 2012
University of Bristol (UK)

Bristol
United Kingdom

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Sponsor(s):

  • AHRC Foundations of Structuralism Project

Organisers:

James Ladyman
University of Bristol (UK)

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Plenary Speakers:

Jeremy Butterfield, Shamik Dasgupta, Eleanor Knox, James Ladyman, Fraser MacBride, Kerry MacKenzie, Fred Muller, Richard Pettigrew and David Wallace.

Contributed papers:

  • Francesca Biagioli ‘Felix Klein’s structuralism in mathematics and epistemology’
  • Anna Ciaunca ‘structural realism and structural objectivity’
  • Kate Hodeson ‘mathematical representation’
  • Daniel Kodaj ‘objective mind-dependent structures’
  • Donnchadh O’Conaill ‘Pythagoreanism and its discontents’
  • Ioan Muntean ‘structures, dualities and emergence: the case of string theory
  • Fiona Roxburgh ‘structuralism and the regulative unity of science’
  • Maria Serban ‘a contextualist challenge for scientific structuralism’
  • Jan Westerhoff ‘ontological problems for structuralism’
  • John Wigglesworth ‘mathematical structures and dependence’
  • Johanna Wolff ‘quantities need structures’

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