FOM: workshop program

Stephen G Simpson simpson at math.psu.edu
Thu Feb 12 08:09:28 EST 1998


Wilfried Sieg asked me to post the following announcement.
-- Steve

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(PRELIMINARY PROGRAM)

"Modern Mathematical Thought II:
Historical and Philosophical Approaches"

(A Joint Workshop at the University of Pittsburgh
and Carnegie Mellon University)

MAY 1 - MAY 4, 1998

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FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1998
2M56 Forbes Quadrangle
University of Pittsburgh

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

9:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.        
Conceptual Change in Mathematics:  Where History Guides Philosophy
Speaker:  Kenneth Manders, University of Pittsburgh
Chair:  Tamara Horowitz, University of Pittsburgh 

11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.       
Pierre Duhem:  Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Speaker:  Mark Wilson,  Ohio State University
Chair:  Tamara Horowitz, University of Pittsburgh

2:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.          
Conceptual Issues in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Speaker:  Emily Grosholz, Penn State University
Chair:  to be announced

4:10 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Forms of Algebraic Proofs in Third Century China
Speaker:  Karine Chemla, CNRS, Paris VII
Chair:  to be announced 

SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1998
Adamson Wing of Baker Hall
Carnegie Mellon University

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.          
Continental Breakfast

9:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.	       
The Origins of Modern Logic
Speaker:   William Ewald, University of Pennsylvania
Chair:  Teddy Seidenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University

11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Hilbert's Consistency Proofs
Speaker:  Wilfried Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair:  Nuel Belnap, University of Pittsburgh 

2:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.	       
The Arithmetization of Geometry
Speaker:  Ralf Haubrich, University of Goettingen
Chair:  Nuel Belnap, University of Pittsburgh

4:10 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Hilbert as Empiricist
Speaker:  Michael Hallett, McGill University
Chair:  Teddy Seidenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
BANQUET
Rangos 3, University Center
Carnegie Mellon University


SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1998
Adamson Wing of Baker Hall
Carnegie Mellon University

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.         
Continental Breakfast

9:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.       
A Matter of Matter or a Matter of Space: Hertz's Image of Mass
Speaker:  Jesper Lutzen, University of Copenhagen
Chair:  John Norton, University of Pittsburgh

11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.     
Hilbert's Criticism of Boltzmann's Kinetic Theory of Gases
Speaker:  Ulrich Majer, University of Hannover
Chair:  John Norton, University of Pittsburgh

2:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.        
Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Classical Mechanics
Speaker:  Tilman Sauer, University of Goettingen
Chair:  Dana Scott, Carnegie Mellon University

4:10 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.         
Carnap, Hilbert and the A Priori
Speaker:  Michael Friedman, Indiana University
Chair:  Dana Scott, Carnegie Mellon University


MONDAY, MAY 4, 1998
2M56 Forbes Quadrangle
University of Pittsburgh

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.          
Continental Breakfast

9:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.          
Intuitionism and Goedel's Extension of the Finitist Standpoint
Speaker:  William Tait, University of Chicago
Chair:  Clark Glymour, Carnegie Mellon University

11:10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	         
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
    Karine Chemla, CNRS, Paris VII
    Michael Friedman, Indiana University
    Kenneth Manders, University of Pittsburgh
    Charles Parsons, Harvard University
    Howard Stein, University of Chicago
    Chair:  Clark Glymour, Carnegie Mellon University

WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
James Lennox, Center for Philosophy of Science
Kenneth Manders, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Philosophy
Wilfried Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Philosophy




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