Previous Seminars

Godel Frege

Easter 2005

Dr Mateja Jamnik
(Cambridge Computer Laboratory)
Can Machines Reason Like Humans in Mathematics?

Lent 2005

Dr Marcus Giaquanto
(Dept. of Philosophy, UCL)
Grasp of Structure

Professor Ruth Kempson
(Dept. of Philosophy, KCL)
The Dynamics of Language

Brian Davies
(Dept. of Mathematics, KCL)
Pluralism in Mathematics

Michaelmas 2004

Professor Donald Gillies
(Dept. of Philosophy, UCL)
Heuristics and Mathematical Discovery: the Case of Bayesian Networks

Dr Imre Leader
(Dept. of Mathematics, Cambridge)
What Makes a Mathematical Problem Interesting?

Dr Arif Ahmed
(Dept. of Philosophy, Cambridge)
Imagination and Mathematical Necessity

Mr Brian King
(Dept. of Philosophy, Cambridge)
Quantification and Mathematical Ontology


Easter 2004

Jan Westerhoff
(Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford)
Cognitive Structuralism: How do we know mathematical structures?

Lent 2004

Dr Eugenia Cheng
(Dept. of Pure Mathematics)
Mathematics, morally.

Dr Keith Hossack
(Dept. of Philosophy, King's College London)
Numbers are Plural Properties

Dr Alan Beardon
(Dept. of Pure Mathematics)
Teaching and Learning Mathematics

Dr Jeff Ketland
(Dept. of Philosophy)
Is God a Mathematician?

Michaelmas 2003

Dr David Corfield
(Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford)
Mathematical Kinds

Dr Ben Garling
(Dept. of Pure Mathematics)
Is Mathematics Real or is it Just Complex?

Dr Alex Paseau
(Dept. of Philosophy)
Does Mathematics Have a Given Interpretation?

Easter 2003

Prof. Robert Thomas
(University of Manitoba, editor of Philosophia Mathematica)
Mathematics and Narrative

Dr. John Mayberry
(University of Bristol)
The Operationalist Fallacy

Lent 2003

Dr. Peter Smith
(Dept. of Philosophy)
Learning to Love ACA0

Dr. Michael Potter
(Dept. of Philosophy)
How Far Can You Go? Some Reflections on Limitation of Size

Dr. Matthew Donald
(Dept. of Physics)
Mathematics and Possibilities

Dr. Martin Hyland
(Dept. of Pure Mathematics)
Diagrammatic Proof: Pretty Powerful or Just Pretty?

Michaelmas 2002

Prof. Tim Gowers
(Dept. of Pure Mathematics)

Dr. Mary Leng
(Dept. of Philosophy)
Mathematics and the Limits of Philosophy

Dr. Thomas Forster
(Dept. of Pure Mathematics)
Imaginaries

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