Wittgenstein on Foundations: Mathematics, Language, World
The conference is funded by the Research Council of Norway and is part of the activities in the grant Mathematics with a Human Face: Set Theory within a Naturalized Wittgensteinean Framework (Project Leaders: Professors Sorin Bangu and Kevin Cahill, University of Bergen).
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The conference is hosted by Wadham College, courtesy of Professor Alex Paseau, University of Oxford.
Programme
Monday 1 August
9.00 Welcome (Note: all times are BST London time = CET-1)
9.15-10.30 Juliet Floyd (Boston). Wittgenstein’s Later Remarks on Philosophy of Mathematics: “Practice” vs. “Technique”
10.30 break (tea/coffee)
11-12.15 Severin Schroeder (Reading). Wittgenstein’s Concern with Mathematical Proof in RFM I
12.30-13.30 lunch
13.45-15 Ray Monk (Southampton). Wittgenstein and Turing on Logic and Mathematics
15 break (tea/coffee)
15.45-17 Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki). Do syntactic features supervene on semantic ones in foundations of mathematics? A few starting points
17.15-18.30 Crispin Wright (NYU, Stirling). Pictures, processes and the basic a priori: simple arithmetic as a case study [ZOOM talk]
18.50 dinner
Tuesday 2 August
9.15-10.30 Sorin Bangu (Bergen) and Jeffrey Schatz (Bergen). Wittgenstein on irrationals
10.30 break (tea/coffee)
11-12.15 Mathieu Marion (Montreal) & JC Pelland (Bergen). Wittgenstein on Surveyability: New Directions
12.30-13.30 lunch
13.45-15 Victor Rodych (Lethbridge). Gödel’s Wittgenstein
13.15 break (tea/coffee)
15.45-17 Michael Potter (Cambridge): Wittgenstein on “The foundations of mathematics”
17.15-18.30 Timm Lampert (Hagen). A Logical Refutation of Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic [ZOOM talk]
Joint work with Anderson Nakano.
18.50 dinner
