Podcasts by MCMP – Ethics and Value Theory
Mathematical Philosophy - the application of logical and mathematical methods in philosophy - is about to experience a tremendous boom in various areas of philosophy. At the new Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, which is funded mostly by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, philosophical research will be carried out mathematically, that is, by means of methods that are very close to those used by the scientists.
The purpose of doing philosophy in this way is not to reduce philosophy to mathematics or to natural science in any sense; rather mathematics is applied in order to derive philosophical conclusions from philosophical assumptions, just as in physics mathematical methods are used to derive physical predictions from physical laws.
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Being a woman in (mathematical) philosophy from 2019-04-18T18:38:51
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (15 May, 2013) titled "Being a woman in (mathematical) philosophy". Abstract: Why are there so few women in philosophy, and in...
ListenDuality, Logic and Judgment Aggregation from 2019-04-18T18:34:22
Alessandra Palmigiano (ILLC) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (10 January, 2013) titled "Duality, Logic and Judgment Aggregation". Abstract: In the last decades, logic has facilitated the build-...
ListenNormativity in reasoning from 2019-04-18T18:28:21
John Broome (Oxford) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (2 May, 2013) titled "Normativity in reasoning". Abstract: Reasoning is a mental process in the course of which some premise-attitudes of yo...
ListenRefutation of Putnam's Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy from 2019-04-18T18:22:29
Eckehart Köhler (Vienna) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (22 May, 2013) titled "Refutation of Putnam's Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy". Abstract: In 2002, Hilary Putnam shocked philosophe...
ListenWhat's the Problem with the Boundary Problem? from 2019-04-18T18:16:38
David Kinkead (Queensland) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (23 April, 2014) titled "What's the Problem with the Boundary Problem?". Abstract: Democracy begins with the people; democratic theory...
ListenThe Logic of Love from 2015-02-14T07:10:20
Aviv Keren (Jerusalem) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (15 January, 2015) titled "The Logic of Love". Abstract: This philosophical work sets the ground for a game-theoretic account of (romantic...
ListenMinding Norms. Mechanisms and Dynamics of Social Order in Agent Societies from 2015-02-12T02:58:55
Rosaria Conte (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology/Rome) gives a talk at the Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy (11-13 December, 2014) titled "Minding Norms. Mechanisms and...
ListenThe Structural Evolution of Morality from 2015-02-12T01:54:06
Jason Alexander (LSE) gives a talk at the Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy (11-13 December, 2014) titled "The Structural Evolution of Morality". Abstract: One general problem faced ...
ListenWomen in Philosophy: Why Should We Get More of Them, and How Do We Do It? from 2014-08-18T01:30:47
Helen Beebee (University of Manchester) gives a talk at the Summer School (27 July - 2 August, 2014) titled "Women in Philosophy: Why Should We Get More of Them, and How Do We Do It?". Abstract: In...
ListenValues and Uncertainties from 2013-08-16T13:25:10
Eric Winsberg (USF) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (29 May, 2013) titled "Values and Uncertainties". Abstract: There has been a great deal of emphasis, in recent years, on developing methods f...
ListenThe public and private morality of climate change from 2013-05-28T05:00
John Broome (Oxford) gives a talk (3 May, 2013) titled "The public and private morality of climate change". Abstract: This talk takes up two important topics within the public morality of climate c...
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