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Studia Logica International Conference
Trends in the Philosophy of Mathematics Trends in Logic VII September 1-4, 2009 Goethe-University Frankfurt

Conference Purpose and Topics:

Trends in Logic is the conference series of Studia Logica.

This year's conference had focused entirely on the philosophy of mathematics. We had invited scholars who pursue the subject at the currently most advanced level.
In addition, we had invited papers that contribute to and try to advance current debates in the field.

Call for Papers! For a special issue of Studia Logica, we invite papers that contribute to current debates.

Deadline for submissions has been extended to January 15, 2010. For more information click here.

Photos are now online! Click here (Photos (C) by Jürgen Lecher).

A reader with the abstracts of the contributed talks is online. Click here.

For the conference poster click here.

SPEAKERS

Christopher von Bülow Fachbereich Philosophie Universität Konstanz	Øystein Linnebo Department of Philosophy University of Bristol
Geoffrey Hellman Department of Philosophy University of Minnesota	Michael Resnik Department of Philosophy UNC Chapel Hill
Leon Horsten Department of Philosophy University of Bristol	Stewart Shapiro Department of Philosophy Ohio State University
Mary Leng Department of Philosophy University of Liverpool	Ryszard Wojcicki Polish Academy of Sciences
	Stephen Yablo Linguistics & Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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CALL FOR PAPERS

For a special issue of Studia Logica, we invite papers that contribute to and try to advance current debates in the Philosophy of Mathematics. Accepted papers will be published together with selected proceedings from this conference. Authors are invited to submit an anonymized paper, including an abstract, and a separate title-page including name, affiliation, title of the paper, and contact information. Submissions should be in PDF format.

Deadline for submissions has been extended! Please submit your paper no later than January 15, 2010 by email to trends@uni-frankfurt.de.

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PROGRAMME

Tuesday: opening lecture at conference eve

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18:00 - 19:00 Registration

19:00 - 20:30 Wojcicki: Two Sources of Mathematical Truth

Wednesday: invited talks

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9:30 - 10:45	Linnebo: A partial defense of Frege's Basic Law V
11:15 - 12:30	Horsten: Vom Zählen zu den Zahlen
14:30 - 15:45	Resnik: Remarks on Structuralism and Identity
16:15 - 17:30	Shapiro: An 'i' for an i: Indiscernability and Reference

Thursday: contributed talks in two parallel sessions (click here for a reader with the abstracts)

IG-Farbenhaus (Main Building), IG 454 and IG 457

	Room 454	Room 457
9:30 - 10:15	Czelakowski: Set-Theoretic Domains	Assadian: Crispin Wright and His Hero
10:15 - 11:00	Kolman: Logicism as Making Arithmetic Explicit	Boccuni: Plural Grundgesetze

11:30 - 12:15	Jacquette: Applied Mathematical Entities in the Aristotelian Inherence Model	Urbaniak: Abstraction Principles: A Modal Interpretation

14:00 - 14:45	Liggins: Fictionalism and Communication	Sereni/Busch: Clari- fying the Spectrum of Indispensability Arguments
14:45 - 15:30	Friederich: Structuralism and Meta-Mathematics	Antonutti: Detlefsen on Mathematical Proof

16:00 - 16:45	Rizza: Discernibility by Symmetries	Kahle: The Ontological Neutrality of the Epistemology of Mathematics
16:45 - 17:30	Pleitz: Towards a Structuralist Ontology of Mathematical Signs	Gabbay: Towards a Workable Formalist Theory of Mathematics

Friday: invited talks

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9:30 - 10:45	von Bülow: Shapiro's and Hellman's Structuralism
11:15 - 12:30	Hellman: Reflections on Replacement and Reflection: The Axioms in a Structuralist Setting
14:30 - 15:45	Leng: Nominalistic Adequacy
16:15 - 17:30	Yablo: Hyperbolic Geometry

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PHOTOS

Click here to open the gallery. (Photos (C) by Jürgen Lecher)

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VENUE

IG-Farben-Haus (Campus Westend)
Grüneburgplatz 1
60329 Frankfurt/Main

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ORGANISERS AND CONTACT

Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Philosophie (Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie)

Institut für Philosophie
Grüneburgplatz 1 (IG-Farbenhaus)
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main

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COMMITTEE

Studia Logica: Jacek Malinowski
Local Organisers: André Fuhrmann Maria Bätzing Ivan Kasa Manfred Kupffer Fabian Seitz	Programme Committee: Francesco Berto Otávio Bueno Moritz Epple André Fuhrmann Volker Halbach Leon Horsten Ivan Kasa Manfred Kupffer Hannes Leitgeb Karl Georg Niebergall Heinrich Wansing

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FURTHER LINKS

Studia Logica
http://www.studialogica.org/

Goethe-University
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/

Philosophy at GU
http://www.philosophie.uni-frankfurt.de/index.html

Conference venue
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/studium/filme/film-westend-01.mpg

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