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Conference Program

“Mathematical and Numerical Inspirations in Philosophy” April 1, 2020, in cyberspace. All times are given in Stanford time ( i.e. , GMT-7). 9:50-10:00 am. Introduction. 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. First panel. “On the importance of formal method and mathematics in philosophy” Samuel Elgin, “Counterfactual Logic and the Necessity of Mathematics” Joshua Petersen, “Are logical models of belief useless?” Cody Maddox, “Sets, Peoples, and Foundations: Towards a Mathematical Approach to Social Ontology” Radosław Mystek, “What mathematics is for mathematicians? A philosophical analysis.” 12:00-12:20 pm. Break. 12:20-1:50 pm. Second panel. “Mathematical and quantitative approaches in history of philosophy” Jacob Zellmer, “Spinoza on Language, Adequate Ideas, and Geometric Order” Evan Welchance, “The Functional Conception of Laws” Adrian Yee, “Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's Mathematization of Social Well-Being” 1:50-2:10 pm. Break. 2:10-3:40 pm. Third pan
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Overview of the Conference

The M&NIP conference is a meeting of intellectuals reflecting on the following (meta)philosophical issue: what is there in the realm of mathematics, or in the realm of quantitative thinking, that makes its influence on philosophy so significant and varying? From Aristotle to Russell, developments in mathematical thinking have shaped the nature of philosophical discourse. From Pythagoras’s employment of measure to Lacan’s use of topology, philosophers of wildly disparate eras and schools of thought have relied on mathematical concepts to elaborate their ideas. Because the conference wants to travel to the very nerve of what constitutes philosophical cognition, in accepting papers we did not prefer any one methodology or approach over another.  The conference's theme covers a diverse array of investigations,  inter alia :  mathematical expositions within formal logic,  logical innovations in formal epistemology,  historical cases of cooperation or conflict betwe
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