2021 Midwest PhilMath Workshop

The 2021 Midwest PhilMath Workshop will take place via Zoom on Tuesdays in November, 2021.

The first session will take place on November 2nd. The program is below.

 

 

5pm:  Øystein Linnebo, Sam Levey, Stewart Shapiro: “Potential Infinity and Theology”
 

6pm: Owain Griffin: “The Problem of Isomorphic Structures

Abstract: In McCarty (2015) an argument is made to undermine the ante-rem structuralist 

account of mathematics. At the conclusion of his paper McCarty poses the

question of whether the same argument `might not prove just as powerful

when directed against the set-theoretic structuralists'. Through this paper

I answer the question firstly by developing McCarty's original argument, and

then showing that set-theoretic structuralism does not fall victim to the chal-

lenge. I therefore conclude that the answer to McCarty's question is negative:

set-theoretic structuralism is not effectively undermined.

 

For the full schedule and more information, click here.