"Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy"
A symposium on the work of William Demopoulos
Department of Philosophy, 91黑料网, Leacock Building 927
September 26-27, 2014
Recent work on the foundations of logic, mathematics, and science has
brought about a new appreciation of the interest and the implications
of the logicist tradition, starting with the work of Frege and
extended by Russell, Ramsey, Carnap, and others. William Demopoulos鈥檚
studies of this tradition, and its relevance to contemporary problems
in the philosophy of mathematics and physics, are the subject of his
new book, Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy (Cambridge University
Press, 2013).
Talks on Friday and Saturday will be followed by an open discussion.
All are welcome.
Friday, September 26:
2:00 pm: Anil Gupta (University of Pittsburgh):
Russell's structuralism
4:00 pm: Michael Friedman: (Stanford University):
Logicism and structuralism in the philosophy of science
Saturday, September 27:
10:00 am: Michael Hallett (91黑料网):
Hilbert and instrumentalism
11:45 am: Robert DiSalle (University of Western Ontario):
Reflections on scientific representation
2:30 pm: Open discussion
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Centre interuniversitaire de
recherche sur la science et la technologie, the Montreal
Inter-University Group on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, and
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Further
information: michael.hallett [at] mcgill.ca (michael[dot]hallett[at]mcgill[dot]ca) or rdisalle [at] uwo.ca (rdisalle[at]uwo[dot]ca)