Wittgenstein+PhilMath
A dual two-day in-person workshop at IHPST Paris, Financed by the Research Council of Norway.
Main content
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
19.30 Conference dinner (restaurant tba)
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)
