Updated program of the Seminars

1st Seminar - Structuralism part 1

Date: Thursday 10/09/15

Time: 11:00 - 15:00 (with 1 hour lunch break)

Room: 206 "G. Leibniz", 1st floor, CLE

Reference: P. Benacerraf – What Numbers could not be (1965)

Speaker: Vincenzo Ciccarelli

2nd Seminar - Structuralism part 2

Date: Thursday 17/09/15

Time: 11:00 - 14:00 (with 15 mins coffee break)

Room: 206 "G. Leibniz", 1st floor, CLE

Reference: P. Resnik - Mathematics as a Science of Patterns: Ontology and Reference (1981)

Speaker: Felipe Weinmann

3rd Seminar - Structuralism part 3

Date: Thursday 08/10/15

Time: 11:00 - 15:00 (with 1 hour lunch break)

Room: 206 "G. Leibniz", 1st floor, CLE

Reference: F. MacBride – Can "ante rem" structuralism solve the access problem? (2008)

Speaker: Gustavo Bertolino

4th Seminar - Nominalism part 1

Date: Thursday 22/10/15

Time: 11:00 - 15:00 (with 1 hour lunch break)

Room: 206 "G. Leibniz", 1st floor, CLE

Reference: W.V.O. Quine - Steps toward a constructive nominalism (1947)

Speaker: Alfredo Freire

5th Seminar - Nominalism part 2

Date:Thursday 05/11/15

Time: 11:00 - 15:00 (with 1 hour lunch break)

Room: 206 "G. Leibniz", 1st floor, CLE

Reference: H. Putnam – Mathematics without foundations (1967)
Speaker: Edgar Almeida

6th Seminar - Nominalism part 3

Date:Thursday 19/11/15

Time: 11:00 - 15:00 (with 1 hour lunch break)

Room: 206 "G. Leibniz", 1st floor, CLE

Reference: C. Chihara – Nominalism – (Chapter 15 of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic) 

Speaker: Bruno Ramos Mendonça

7th Seminar – Nominalism part 4
Date: Thursday 10/12/15
Room: 206 "G.Leibniz", 1st floor CLE
Reference: J.Azzouni – Applied Mathematics, existential commitment, and the Quine-Putnam indispensability thesis (1997)
Speaker: Henrique Antunes