Content, Construction and Convention A Workshop on the Intersection of Language, Mathematics and Logic in Honor of Stewart Shapiro

DAY 1 :Tuesday June 7, 2022  

Room:  502 Maiersdorf

8:30 -9:00 :  GATHERING

 

FIRST SESSION:  COLLECTIONS AND SETS  

9:00- 9:15     GREETINGS

9:15-10:15    Stewart Shapiros Semantic Indeterminacy, Concept Sharpening, Set Theories

 

Break

 

10:30-11:15  Salvatore Florio (Two conceptions of absolute generality)

11:15 – 12:00  Gabriel Uzquiano (Singletons of Classes)

 

LUNCH

 

SECOND SESSION:   LOGIC AND PARADOX 

15:15 – 16:00 Kevin Scharp (Principles of Pragmatic Tolerance) *

16:15 – 17:00   Alan Weir (Shapiro, Vagueness and Logic)*

 

Break 

 

17:15 – 18:00  Gila Sher (A new solution to the liar) *

 

 

DAY 2: Wednesday June 8, 2022    

Room: 502 Maiersdorf

 

THIRD SESSION:   LOGICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PLURALISM

9:00 – 9:45 Teresa Kouri Kissel (Carnap is not a pluralist)

9:45- 10:30   Graham Priest (Some Objections to Mathematical Pluralism)*

 

Break

 

FOURTH SESSION:  INFINITY AND INTUITIONISM 

10:45– 11:30 Øystein Linnebo (Potentialism in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics)

11:30—12:15 Roy Cook  (Potential Infinity, Indefinite Extensibility, and Intuitionistic Logic)

Break

12:30– 13:15 Carl Posy  (Not your grandma’s intuitionism)

 

LUNCH

 

FIFTH SESSION: PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS

15:00 – 15:45 Marco Panza (Was Frege a Logicist? Possibly not.)

15:45– 16:30 Marcus Rossberg  TBA*

 

Break

 

16:45– 17:30 Geoffrey Hellman (Why I am almost a nominalist)*

 

 

 

DAY 3: Thursday June 9, 2022    

Room TBA

 

SIXTH SESSION:  LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

9:00-9:45    Fred Landman (Compositional Measures)

9:45-10:30 Craige Roberts (The Indexical Character of Epistemic Modals)

 

Break

 

10:45 –11:30  Paula Quinon (Philosophy of Notations)

11:30 – 12:15 Richard Samuels (‘What do Cardinal-Principle Knowers Know?’)

12:15 – 13:00 Eric Snyder (‘Mathematical Empiricism and its Problems’)

 

13:00 – 13:20     ADDITIONAL GREETINGS & CLOSING REMARKS:

 

 

*Lecture to be delivered remotely.

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