Paul Benacerraf Workshop

May 10, 2012 - May 11, 2012
Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), College de France

Paris
France

Speakers:

Paul Benacerraf
Princeton University

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Thursday, May 10, Salle 5

Morning

9:00 - 9:45 Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France, Chaire de métaphysique et philosophie de la connaissance):Welcoming speech

Fabrice Pataut (Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques): Short introduction to the workshop

Chair: Sébastien Gandon

9:45 - 11:15 Jody Azzouni (Tufts university): The problem with Benacerraf’s problem

Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Brice Halimi (Université Paris Ouest (IREPH) and SPHERE): Benacerraf’s mathematical antinomy

Afternoon

Chair: Mary Leng

14:30 - 16:00 Bob Hale (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the University of Sheffield): Properties, Skolem and the interpretation of second-order logic

Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:45 Jacques Dubucs (Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques):Motionless Gödel’s long strides. Note on the contemporary versions of Zeno’s arguments

Coffee Break

18:00 -19:30 Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France, Chaire de métaphysique et philosophie de la connaissance):Peirce on mathematical objects and mathematical objectivity

Friday, May 11, Amphithéâtre Budé

Morning

Chair: Claudine Tiercelin

9:00 - 10:30 Mary Leng (University of York): Truth, fiction and stipulation

Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15 Sébastien Gandon (Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont II) and Institut Universitaire de France):Benacerraf on logicism

Afternoon

Chair: Fabrice Pataut

14:30 - 16:00 Andrea Sereni (Università Vita e Salute San Raffaele, Milan): A dilemma for Benacerraf’s dilemma?

Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:45 Stuart Shapiro (The Ohio State University - Arché Professorial Fellow, University of St. Andrews):What does it take to be an object in mathematics?

Coffee Break

18:00 Paul Benacerraf (James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University):Concluding remarks

Organisation: Fabrice Pataut 

Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST)
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