Updating Indispensabilities: Hilary Putnam in Memoriam
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Noticias Generales
COLOQUIO COMPOSTELANO DE LÓGICA Y FILOSOFÍA ANALÍTICA
Updating Indispensabilities. Hilary Putnam in Memoriam
November the 30th, December the 1st, 2016
Site: Sala Hipatia, Facultad de Filosofía, USC, Santiago de Compostela
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Organized by: |
EPISTEME, research group |
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Research Project:
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“The explanatory function of abstract objects: nature and cognoscibility” (FFI2013-41415-P) |
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Financed by: |
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity |
PROGRAMME
November the 30th, 2016
09:45 Indispensability arguments and the metaphysics of mathematical objects Matteo Plebani (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
10:30 Discussion
11:15 Break (Paperwork for payment included)
12:00h. Mathematics and Ethics without Ontology, Mary Leng, (University of York)
12:45 Discussion
13:30 Lunch
15:30h Putnam’s Indispensability Argument Revisited, Reassessed, Revived Otávio Bueno (Department of Philosophy University of Miami)
16:15 Discussion
17:00 Break
17:15 The Intuitive Nature of Numbers and the Basis of Structuralism
Mario Gómez Torrente (Instituto de Investigaciones filosóficas, UNAM)
18:00- 18:45 Discussion
December the 1st, 2016
10:00h. Putnam and contemporary fictionalism, Concha Martínez-Vidal (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
10:45h. Discussion
11:30h. Break
12:00h. Mathematical Explanation and Indispensability
Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University, USA)
12:45h. Discussion
13:30h. Lunch
15:30h Hilary Putnam on Methodological Practice and Ontology, José M. Sagüillo (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
16:15h. Discussion
17:00h. Break
17:15h. Naturalism, Indispensability and Causal Nominalism
Sorin Bangu (University of Bergen, Norway)
18:00h- 18:45h Discussion
