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 panel.
“Contemporary formal philosophy in continental thought”
Ravi Chakraborty, “Only Mathematics is “Mathematical”: The Tenuous Primacy of Relations”
Joe Goodhew, “Extra-acting Corposurreasonably: Sunthetic Moduls for Emboldied Anderstanding and the Cyphering and Decypherunmeant of Surrealsonable Motivivations”
Itai Farhi, “Unfree Play: Assimilating Strategic Rationality”

3:40-4:00 pm. Break.

4:00-5:30 pm. Fourth panel.
“Reflection on the significance of numbers in philosophical thought”
Peter Moore, “Mathematics and the Architectonics of the State: A Case Study of Mathematics and Totalitarian Impulses in Plato’s Republic and Hobbes’ Leviathan”
Kamil Aftyka, “Triad in pragmatist philosophy”
Konrad Wyszkowski, “The number of relevant steps of thinking (proving) as philosophical issue”

5:30-5:50 pm. Break.

5:50-6:50 pm. Invited lecture.
Reza Negarestani, “The Unenumerated Number” 60 minutes. Invited lecture.

6:50-7:00 pm. Closing remarks.


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