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Platonism and anti-platonism in the philosophy of mathematics

Platonism and anti-platonism in the philosophy of mathematics

(VI) Fictionalism and figuralism in Stephen Yablo
Monday, May 17 - Padova
Discussion leader: Matteo Plebani

a. Yablo, S. (2001 ), "Go Figure: A Path through Fictionalism", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, XXV, 1, pp.  72-102
b. Il problema di Platone, ch. 4, par. 2.

Venue: Sala Giacon, Facoltà di Filosofia, P.zza Capitaniato 3, Padova.

• Speaker: Delia Belleri 
• Title: "Is Semantically Underdetermined Content really Non-Propositional?"
• Venue: Sala Rossa, III floor. via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.

• MacFarlane J. (draft) Reading: Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications, chapter 4
• Discussion leader:Elisabetta Lalumera
• Venue: sala Rossa, III floor, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

Reading material attached below

Further optional readings:

David WIggins will be visiting the Department of Philosophy of Bologna in May 2010 giving series of talks. This talk is hosted by the seminar "I modi della scienza e le forme della logica" (prof. G. Corsi and prof. R. Lupacchini).

• Speaker: David Wiggins (Oxford)i
• Title: "Sense and the Paradox of Analysis"
• Venue: Sala Mondolfo, III floor, via Zamboni 38, Bologna

COGITO DAY IV--Epistemology

Venue: Dipartimento Discipline della comunicazione, Sala rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.

Programme

9.30-11.00 Walter Cavini: "Sogno e Aporia
L'Argomento Scettico del Sogno da Platone a Wittgenstein"
11.15-12.15 Sara Neva: "Giustificazione e testimonianza"
12.15-13.15 Michele Palmira: "Disagreement: the case of epistemic peers"

Lunch

15.30-16.30 Alessia Pasquali: "Conoscere la mente: osservazioni sullo sviluppo della psicologia ingenua"
17.00-18.30 Clotilde Calabi: "Cats! Michotte’s new enigma of perception"

David WIggins will be visiting the Department of Philosophy of Bologna in May 2010 giving series of talks. This talk is hosted by Cogito Philosophy of Language Seminar.

• Speaker: David Wiggins (Oxford)
• Title: "The Paradox of Analysis and the Paradox of Synonymy"
• Venue: Sala Mondolfo,
  Via Zamboni, 38 – III Piano, Bologna.

• MacFarlane J. (draft) Reading: Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications, chapter 5
• Discussion leader: Sara Neva
• Venue: sala Rossa, III floor, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

Reading material attached below

Further optional readings:

Platonism and anti-platonism in the philosophy of mathematics

(VII) Fictionalism: limits and prospects
Monday, May 31
Discussion leader: Vittorio Morato

a. Balaguer, M. (2009), "Fictionalism, Theft, and  the Story of Mathematics", Philosophia Mathematica, Series III, XVII, 2, pp. 131-62. 

Venue: Sala Giacon, Facoltà di Filosofia, P.zza Capitaniato 3, Padova.

The event is organized by prof. Paolo Leonardi (University of Bologna) and prof. Diego Marconi (University of Turin) and it comes at the end of the national research project Aspects of Truth.

The event is organized by prof. Paolo Leonardi (University of Bologna) and prof. Diego Marconi (University of Turin) and it comes at the end of the national research project Aspects of Truth.

The event is organized by prof. Paolo Leonardi (University of Bologna) and prof. Diego Marconi (University of Turin) and it comes at the end of the national research project Aspects of Truth.

The event is organized by prof. Paolo Leonardi (University of Bologna) and prof. Diego Marconi (University of Turin) and it comes at the end of the national research project Aspects of Truth.

Prof. John MacFarlane, visiting professor at Cogito from June 7 to June 11, will lead <a series of five research seminars.

This is the first seminar of the series.

Prof. John MacFarlane, visiting professor at Cogito from June 7 to June 11, will lead a series of five research seminars.

This is the second seminar of the series.

Prof. John MacFarlane, visiting professor at Cogito from June 7 to June 11, will lead a series of five research seminars.

This is the third seminar of the series.