Midwest PhilMath Workshop (MWPMW 10)

  • Program: MWPMW 10

  • Friday, October 9, 2009
    Hayes-Hurley Center, room 127
    4:00--5:30

    Special 10th Anniversary Seminar: Set Theory and Philosophy

    Tony Martin (Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy, UCLA), "Evidence in Set Theory"
    Nik Weaver (Dept. of Mathematics, Washington U), "Which ordinals are predicatively provable?"
    Hugh Woodin (Dept. of Mathematics, U of California--Berkeley), "The search for ultimate L"

    Saturday, October 10, 2009
    All sessions will be held in room 140 of DeBartolo Hall.
    Session 1: 9:00am--11:55am

    9:00--11:55 Symposium: Philosophical Issues Concerning Set Theory

    (i) Hugh Woodin (Dept. of Mathematics, U of California--Berkeley), "Multiverse views and the search for ultimate(mathematical) truth"

    (ii) Nik Weaver (Dept. of Mathematics, Washington U), "Disbelieving the power set axiom"

    (iii) Tony Martin (Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy, UCLA), "Mathematical Objects & Mathematical Concepts"

    Lunch: 12:00--1:30
    Session II: 1:45--5:45

    1:45--2:40 Geoffrey Hellman (Dept. of Philosophy, U of Minnesota--Twin Cities), "Reflections on Replacement and Reflection"
    2:45--3:40 Madeline Muntersbjorn (Dept. of Philosophy, U of Toledo), "Poincaré & Mathematical Discovery"
    3:45--4:40 Norma Goethe (School of Philosophy, National U of Cordoba, Argentina) & Michele Friend (Dept. of Philosophy, George Washington U), "Confronting Philosophical Ideals of Proof"
    4:45--5:40 Benedikt Löwe (ILLC, U of Amsterdam),"Idealization in epistemology of mathematics"

    Social Hour: 6:00--7:00
    Dinner: 7:00--9:00

    Sunday, October 11, 2009
    Session III: 9:00am--1:00pm

    9:00--9:55 Neil Tennant (Dept. of Philosophy, The Ohio State U), "The Schröder-Bernstein Theorem"
    10:00--10:55 Gregory Lavers (Dept. of Philosophy, Concordia U, Montreal), "Frege the conventionalist and Carnap the Fregean"
    11:00--11:55 Kent Schmor (Dept. of Philosophy, U of Illinois--Chicago), "Against Intolerance: A Defense of Carnap’sPhilosophy of Mathematics"
    12:00--12:55 Tim McCarthy (Dept. of Philosophy, U of Illinois--Urbana/Champaign), "On the Stability of Gödel’s Second Incompleteness Theorem"     

    1:00pm Adjournment

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