Podcasts by MCMP – Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language
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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Do Modus Ponens and Tollens Really Leak? Remarks from a Linguistic Semanticist from 2019-04-19T00:05:49
Dietmar Zaefferer (LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (15 May, 2014) titled "Do Modus Ponens and Tollens Really Leak? Remarks from a Linguistic Semanticist". Abstract: Despite considerable pr...
ListenPutnam and the Multiverse from 2019-04-19T00:05:27
Timothy Bays (Notre Dame) gives a talk at the Workshop on ”Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments" (May 23, 2013) titled "Putnam and the Multiverse".
ListenThe Metaphysics of Lazy Worlds from 2019-04-19T00:05:10
Benjamin Smart (Birmingham) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (10 January, 2013) titled "The Metaphysics of Lazy Worlds". Abstract: Although it is not uncommon for philosophers to put the fundame...
ListenRelativism and Superassertibility from 2019-04-19T00:04:33
Manfred Harth (LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (19 June, 2013) titled "Relativism and Superassertibility". Abstract: Relativism about truth is in vogue these days. More and more areas of t...
ListenThings that don't exist from 2019-04-19T00:04:09
Tobias Rosefeldt (Berlin) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (5 June, 2013) titled "Things that don't exist". Abstract: Are there things that don’t exist? Several answers seem to be possible here....
ListenNaive perception, Cartesian scepticism, and the model-theoretic arguments from 2019-04-19T00:04:02
Tim Button (Cambridge) gives a talk at the Workshop on ”Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments" (May 23, 2013) titled "Naive perception, Cartesian scepticism, and the model-theoretic arguments".
ListenHow to be a Dispositionalist about Modality from 2019-04-19T00:01:53
Barbara Vetter (Berlin) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (25 April, 2013) titled "How to be a Dispositionalist about Modality". Abstract: In recent years, metaphysicians have become increasingly...
ListenInternal Realism and Structural Realism from 2019-04-18T23:55:31
Kate Hodesdon (Bristol) gives a talk at the Workshop on ”Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments" (May 23, 2013) titled "Internal Realism and Structural Realism".
ListenMathematical Structuralism and Metaphysical Dependence from 2015-07-20T14:00
John Wigglesworth (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (16 July, 2015) titled "Mathematical Structuralism and Metaphysical Dependence". Abstract: The notion of dependence plays various ro...
ListenRealism about Measurement and Realism about Magnitudes from 2015-07-14T01:00
Johanna Wolff (Hong Kong) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (8 July, 2015) titled "Realism about Measurement and Realism about Magnitudes". Abstract: A realist about measurement, roughly speaking...
ListenExistiert Gott? (Teil 2) from 2015-07-10T01:00
Winfried Löffler (Innsbruck) nimmt Stellung zum Thema "Existiert Gott?" (8. Dezember 2014) auf der gleichnamigen Veranstaltung und vertritt damit eine gegensätzliche Postion zu Norbert Hoerster (Ma...
ListenFregean Compositionality from 2015-07-08T01:00
Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (25 June, 2015) titled "Fregean Compositionality". Abstract: The distinction between transparent and opaque contexts has always...
ListenLogic and Metaphysical Presuppositions from 2015-02-10T05:04:24
Otávio Bueno (Miami) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (22 January, 2015) titled "Logic and Metaphysical Presuppositions". Abstract: Does logic (in particular, classical logic) have metaphysical ...
ListenMaking Quotation Transparent: A Compositional Analysis of an Apparently Opaque Phenomenon from 2015-01-21T00:49:44
Markus Werning (Bochum) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (11 December, 2014) titled "Making Quotation Transparent: A Compositional Analysis of an Apparently Opaque Phenomenon". Abstract: Quotati...
ListenExistiert Gott? (Teil 1) from 2015-01-15T15:36:20
Norbert Hoerster (Mainz) nimmt Stellung zum Thema "Existiert Gott?" (8. Dezember 2014) auf der gleichnamigen Veranstaltung und vertritt damit eine gegensätzliche Postion zu Winfried Löffler (Innsbr...
ListenStructural Realism from 2014-11-04T01:44:01
David Chalmers (NYU) meets Thomas Meier (MCMP/LMU) in a joint session on "Structural Realism" (generously supported by the Goethe-Institut New York) at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (2 and 3 Sep...
ListenInter-Theoretical Relations in Linguistics from 2014-10-06T01:58:34
Kristina Liefke (MCMP/LMU) meets Lucas Champollion (NYU) in a joint session on "Inter-Theoretical Relations in Linguistics" at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (2 and 3 Sept, 2014, German House, Ne...
ListenOn the Classification of Diseases from 2014-02-18T05:07:44
Benjamin Smart (Birmingham) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (18 December, 2013) titled "On the Classification of Diseases". Abstract: Identifying the necessary and sufficient conditions for ind...
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