Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Cambridge Graudate Conference Schedule

As promised, here is the schedule for the 2nd Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.


Saturday 17th

10.00-11.15 Lee Walters (UCL)-- Morgenbesser's coin and counterfactuals
with true components. Respondent: Arif Ahmed.

11.15-11.45 COFFEE BREAK

11.45-13.00 Julien Murzi (Sheffield) and Ole Hjortland (St Andrews):
Inferentialism and the categoricity problem: reply to Raatikainen.
Respondent: Peter Smith.

13.00-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.15 Howard Peacock (UCL) -- Two Kinds of Ontological Commitment.
Respondent: Nathan Wildman.

15.15-15.45 TEA BREAK

15.45-17.30 Prof. Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol) -- On Formal and Informal
Provability.

Sunday 18th

10.00-11.15 Davide Rizza (Sheffield) - Magicada, Mathematical Explanation,
and Mathematical Realism. Respondent: Sorin Bangu.

11.15-11.45 COFFEE BREAK

11.45-13.00 Tim Storer (Cambridge) -- Wright, Skolem, and the Sceptic.
Respondent: Steven Methven.

13.00-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.15 James Henry Colinn (Edinburgh)-- In Defence of Larceny.
Respondent: Bob Hanna.

15.15-15.45 TEA BREAK

15.45-17.30 Prof. Timothy Williamson (Oxford) -- Metaphysical Issues in
Second-Order Modal Logic.



Thursday, December 25, 2008

January events

Happy holidays to all readers! I'm currently at home for a week's time to see family and friends. I'll be back in St Andrews on the 5th of January to prepare for the first FLC workshop. I'll let you know when the schedule is online.

The following weekend, January 17th-18th, I'll be in Cambridge to give a talk with Julien Murzi at the 2nd Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. Last year's event was great, and I'm really looking forward to meeting friends in Cambridge again. The organisers continue a tradition of great keynote speakers, this time with Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol) and Timothy Williamson (Oxford).

Also, I ought to mention that there is a one-day Arché workshop on alethic pluralism coming up on the 11th of January. Schedule and contributors here. In that connection, I've noticed that one of the visitors, Michael Lynch (UConn), has published a (version of a) paper he gave in Arché some time back. The paper is called 'Alethic Pluralism, Logical Consequence, and the Universality of Reason'. Find a pre-print here.