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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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Mathematical Empiricism. A Methodological Proposal from 2018-03-17T15:16:36
Hannes Leitgeb (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Mathematical Empiricism. A Methodological Proposal". Abstract...
ListenNotations and Diagrams in Algebra from 2018-03-17T15:02
Silvia de Toffoli (Stanford University) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Notations and Diagrams in Algebra". Abstract: T...
ListenEthics and Morality in the Vienna Circle from 2018-03-17T15:01:15
Anne Siegetsleitner (Innsbruck) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Ethics and Morality in the Vienna Circle". Abstract: In...
ListenDegrees of Truth Explained Away from 2018-03-17T15:00:44
Rossella Marrano (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Degrees of Truth Explained Away". Abst...
ListenWhat Are No-Go Theorems Good for? from 2018-03-17T15:00:06
Radin Dardashti (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "What Are No-Go Theorems Good for?". Abstract: No-go Theorems...
ListenMathematical Philosophy and Leitgeb’s Carnapian Big Tent: Past, Present, Future from 2018-03-17T14:59:24
André W. Carus (LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Mathematical Philosophy and Leitgeb’s Carnapian Big Tent: Past, Pr...
ListenValuing Questions from 2018-03-17T14:58:17
Liam Kofi Bright (CMU Pittsburgh) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Valuing Questions". Abstract: If all scientists seek ...
ListenRelating Theories of Intensional Semantics: Established Methods and Surprising Results from 2018-03-17T14:53:51
Kristina Liefke (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Relating Theories of Intensional Semantics: Established Meth...
ListenInductive Reasoning with Conceptual Spaces: A Proposal for Analogy from 2018-03-17T14:49:22
Marta Sznajder (University of Groningen/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Inductive Reasoning with Conceptual Space...
ListenFive Years MCMP: Looking Back from 2018-03-17T14:47:29
Roland Poellinger (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Five Years MCMP: Looking Back". Abstract: In this presenta...
ListenOn Some Puzzling Features of Existential Discourse from 2018-03-17T13:27:02
Dolf Rami (Göttingen) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (21 January, 2016) titled "On Some Puzzling Features of Existential Discourse". Abstract: Existence is a very puzzling notion that bewitche...
ListenOn the Role of Supplementation Principles in Mereology from 2018-03-17T13:26:52
Aaron Cotnoir (St. Andrews) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (4 February, 2016) titled"On the Role of Supplementation Principles in Mereology". Abstract: Mereology is the formal theory of parts ...
ListenCausation&Time Reversal from 2018-03-17T13:22:06
Matt Farr (Queensland) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (20 January, 2016) titled "Causation&Time Reversal". Abstract: What would it be for a process to happen ‘backwards’ in time? Would such a ...
ListenOn the Relationship Between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Justifications from 2018-03-17T13:19:24
Neil Barton (Birkbeck) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (14 January, 2016) titled "On the Relationship Between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Justifications". Abstract: Recent discussions of the justif...
ListenTurbulence, Universality and Emergence from 2018-03-17T13:15:56
Margaret Morrison (Toronto) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (3 February, 2016) titled "Turbulence, Universality and Emergence". Abstract: Turbulent flows are paradigm cases of complex systems w...
ListenHow (not) to make everyone better off from 2018-03-17T13:15:01
Anna Mahtani (LSE) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (16 December, 2015) titled "How (not) to make everyone better off". Abstract: he concept of ‘pareto superiority’ plays a central role in welfa...
ListenNon-Classical Knwoledge from 2018-03-17T13:14:50
Ethan Jerzak (Berkeley) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (17 December, 2015) titled "Non-Classical Knwoledge".
ListenThe Quantified Argument Calculus from 2018-03-17T13:12:08
Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (16 December, 2015) titled "The Quantified Argument Calculus". Abstract: I present the principles of a logic I have developed, in which qua...
ListenAnaphora and Presuppositions in Dependent Type Semantics from 2018-03-17T13:06:43
Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (2 December, 2015) titled "Anaphora and Presuppositions in Dependent Type Semantics". Abstract: Dependent type semantics (D...
ListenEnsemble Realism. A new Approach to Statistical Mechanical Probability from 2018-03-17T12:55:52
Nick Tosh (NUI Galway) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (2 December, 2015) titled "Ensemble Realism. A new Approach to Statistical Mechanical Probability". Abstract: “What we know about a body c...
ListenPan-Perspectival Realism from 2018-03-17T12:54:43
Paul Teller (UC Davis) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (10 December, 2015) titled "Pan-Perspectival Realism". Abstract: Conventional scientific realism is just the doctrine that our theoretical...
ListenAnti-Exceptionalism About Logic from 2018-03-17T12:54:41
Ole Hjortland (Bergen) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (3 December, 2015) titled "Anti-Exceptionalism About Logic". Abstract: Logic isn’t special. Its theories are continuous with science; its ...
ListenThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Nonstandard Analysis from 2018-03-17T12:52:53
Sam Sanders (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (26 November, 2015) titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Nonstandard Analysis". Abstract: There is a persistent belief, propagated by...
ListenGini vs. Shannon: The Case for Quadratic Entropy in Formal Philosophy of Science from 2018-03-17T12:51:11
Vincenzo Crupi (Turin) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (26 November, 2015) titled "Gini vs. Shannon: The Case for Quadratic Entropy in Formal Philosophy of Science". Abstract: A probabilistic r...
ListenQuantum Causal Models, Faithfulness and Retrocausality from 2018-03-17T12:49:54
Peter Evans (Queensland) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (25 November, 2015) titled "Quantum Causal Models, Faithfulness and Retrocausality". Abstract: Wood and Spekkens (2015) argue that any c...
ListenPositive Reflection Calculi from 2018-03-17T11:59:58
Lev Beklemishev (Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (12 November, 2015) titled "Positive Reflection Calculi". Abstract: We deal with the fragment of proposition...
ListenCounterfactual Belief and Actuality from 2018-03-17T11:57:58
Jan Heylen (KU Leuven) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (19 November, 2015) titled "Counterfactual Belief and Actuality". Abstract: The central question of this article is how to combine counter...
ListenWhere are the Woman in Medieval Logic? from 2018-03-17T11:51:57
Sara Uckelman (Durham University) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (18 November, 2015) titled "Where are the Woman in Medieval Logic?". Abstract: Recent research into medieval logic has shown th...
ListenTruthlikeness, Accuracy and Epistemic Value from 2018-03-17T11:48:33
Graham Oddie (Boulder) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (29 October, 2015) titled "Truthlikeness, Accuracy and Epistemic Value".
ListenDoxastic Responsibility and the Basing Relation from 2018-03-17T11:48:11
Anne Meylan (Basel) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (11 November, 2015) titled "Doxastic Responsibility and the Basing Relation". Abstract: People are responsible for their beliefs and not only...
ListenAdmissibility Decisions, Permissible Previsions from 2018-03-17T11:47:59
Arthur Pedersen (Max Planck Institute/MCMP) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (5 November, 2015) titled "Admissibility Decisions, Permissible Previsions". Abstract: In this talk I shall consider ...
ListenGustav Shpet on the Function of Understanding History from 2018-03-17T11:43:01
Elena Tatievskaya (Augsburg) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (4 November, 2015) titled "Gustav Shpet on the Function of Understanding History". Abstract: I discuss the question whether the meth...
ListenFirst Steps towards Non-Classical Logic of Informal Provability from 2018-03-17T11:36:34
Rafal Urbaniak (Ghent) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (29 October, 2015) titled "First Steps towards Non-Classical Logic of Informal Provability". Abstract: Mathematicians prove theorems in a ...
ListenEpistemic Logic, Game Theory and Behavior from 2018-03-17T11:17:14
Rohit Parikh (CUNY) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (29 October, 2015) titled "Epistemic Logic, Game Theory and Behavior". Abstract: Enormous developments have taken place in epistemic reasonin...
ListenPanel III: Discussion on "Has Physics changed? - and should it?" from 2018-03-13T13:14:50
Discussion on "Has Physics changed? - and should it?" at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015).
ListenPanel II: Discussion on "How far do we get with Empirical Data?" from 2018-03-13T13:01:54
Discussion on "How far do we get with Empirical Data?" at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015).
ListenPanel I: Discussion on "Why Trust a Theory?" from 2018-03-13T13:01:03
Discussion on "Why Trust a Theory?" at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015).
ListenString Theory to the Rescue from 2018-03-13T12:46:25
David Gross (UC Santa Barbara) presented Joseph Polichinski's (UC Santa Barbara) talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "String Theory to the Rescue". Abstract: T...
ListenWhat is a Theory? from 2018-03-13T12:45:36
David Gross (UC Santa Barbara) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "What is a Theory?".
ListenThe Limits of Cosmology, Post-Planck from 2018-03-13T12:36:22
Joseph Silk (Johns Hopkins Univ. Baltimore/Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "The Limits of Cosmology, Post-Planc...
ListenFundamental Theories and Epistemic Shifts: Can History of Science serve as a Guide? from 2018-03-13T12:27:32
Helge Kragh (Copenhagen) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Fundamental Theories and Epistemic Shifts: Can History of Science serve as a Guide?". Abs...
ListenAspects of Quantum Gravity from 2018-03-13T12:12:50
Dieter Lüst (LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Aspects of Quantum Gravity".
ListenWhat can we learn from Analogue Experiments? from 2018-03-13T12:10:50
Karim Thebault (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "What can we learn from Analogue Experiments?". Abstract: In 1981 Unruh proposed that flu...
ListenConsidering the Role of Information Theory in Fundamental Physics from 2018-03-13T12:09:57
Chris Wüthrich (Geneva) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Considering the Role of Information Theory in Fundamental Physics". Abstract: Information ...
ListenScientific Methodology: A View from Early String Theory from 2018-03-13T12:09:23
Elena Castellani (Florence) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Scientific Methodology: A View from Early String Theory". Abstract: Looking at the dev...
ListenLost in Math from 2018-03-13T12:08:49
Sabine Hossenfelder (NORDITA, Stockholm) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Lost in Math". Abstract: I will speak about the role of social and cognit...
ListenLimits in testing the Multiverse from 2018-03-13T12:08:30
George Ellis (Cape Town) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Limits in testing the Multiverse". Abstract: Our ability to test cosmological models is s...
ListenTheory in Fundamental Physics: The View from the Outside from 2018-03-13T12:08:10
Massimo Pigliucci (City College of New York) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Theory in Fundamental Physics: The View from the Outside". Abstract: ...
ListenSecret Quantum Lives of Black Holes and Dark Energy from 2018-03-13T12:07:23
Georgi Dvali (LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Secret Quantum Lives of Black Holes and Dark Energy".
ListenNon-empirical Confirmation from 2018-03-13T12:07:01
Richard Dawid (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Non-empirical Confirmation". Abstract: The talk will analyse reasons for the high degree ...
ListenPhysics without Experiments? from 2018-03-13T12:06:40
Radin Dardashti (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Physics without Experiments?". Abstract: Most of the fundamental theories in modern phy...
ListenScientific Speculation from 2018-03-13T12:06:37
Peter Achinstein (Johns Hopkins Univ. Baltimore) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Scientific Speculation". Abstract: Throughout the history of scie...
ListenNon-empirical Confirmation: Just a Cover-Up for the Failures of String Theory? from 2018-03-13T12:02
Carlo Rovelli (Univ. of Aix Marseilles) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Non-empirical Confirmation: Just a Cover-Up for the Failures of String The...
ListenString/M-Theories about our World are Testable in the Traditional Physics Way from 2018-03-13T12:01:40
Gordon Kane (Univ. of Michigan/Ann Arbour) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "String/M-Theories about our World are Testable in the Traditional Physi...
ListenAchievements and Challenges for String Phenomenology/Cosmology from 2018-03-13T12:00:22
Fernando Quevedo (Univ. of Cambridge/ ICTP Trieste) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Achievements and Challenges for String Phenomenology/Cosmology...
ListenIs the Quantum Origin of Galaxies Falsifiable? from 2018-03-13T11:59:36
Viatcheslav Mukhanov (LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Is the Quantum Origin of Galaxies Falsifiable?".
ListenDark Gravity, Dark Fluids, and Dark Statistics from 2018-03-13T11:58:33
Björn Malte Schäfer (Heidelberg) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December,2015) titled "Dark Gravity, Dark Fluids, and Dark Statistics". Abstract: Observational cosmology...
ListenOpening Words from 2018-03-13T11:56:33
Opening Words by Richard Dawid (MCMP/LMU), Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU) and Dieter Lüst (LMU) at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015).
ListenA Deflationary Account of Classes from 2016-06-13T09:32:45
Thomas Schindler (University of Cambridge/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "A Deflationary Account of Classes". Abs...
ListenFormal Methods in the Study of Truth from 2016-06-13T09:03:04
Lavinia Picollo (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Formal Methods in the Study of Truth". Abstract: The nature ...
ListenTowards an Adequate Criterion of Structural Equivalence of Theories from 2016-06-13T08:32:41
Laurenz Hudetz (University of Salzburg) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Towards an Adequate Criterion of Structural Equ...
ListenSelf-Referential Probability from 2016-06-13T08:32:22
Catrin Campbell-Moore (University of Cambridge/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Self-Referential Probability". Abs...
ListenA Math-Philosophical Approach to Deontic Concepts from 2016-06-10T06:30:21
Ilaria Canavotto (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "A Math-Philosophical Approach to Deontic Concepts". Abstrac...
ListenOpen Reading for Free Choice Permission: A Perspective in Substructural Logics from 2016-06-10T06:29:47
Huimin Dong (University of Bayreuth) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Open Reading for Free Choice Permission: A Perspec...
ListenHow Bayesianism Adresses the Problem(s) of Induction from 2016-06-10T06:29:16
Chloé de Canson (University of Cambridge) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "How Bayesianism Addresses the Problem(s) of I...
ListenWhat is Truth-Maker Semantics? from 2016-06-10T06:29:01
Johannes Korbmacher (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "What is Truth-Maker Semantics?". Abstract: The aim of th...
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