Workshop at
GAP.6
Freie Universität Berlin
September 14-16, 2006
Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics
organized by
Bernd Buldt (Konstanz), Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam), Thomas Müller (Bonn)
Invited Speakers:
- Leo Corry (Tel Aviv): From Algebra (1895) to Moderne Algebra (1930): Changing Conceptions of a Discipline. A Guided Tour Using the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik
- Keith Devlin (Stanford):
The useful and reliable illusion of reality in mathematics
PDF file of the talk - Katja
Lengnink (Darmstadt): Didactical perspectives on
mathematics and its philosophical implications
PDF file of the slides - Bart Van
Kerkhove (Brussels): Informal
aspects of
mathematics
PDF file of the talk
Contributed
Talks:
- Tatiana Arrigoni (Genova): Towards a New Philosophy of Set Theory
- Alan Baker (Swarthmore PA): Experimental Mathematics
- Kajsa Bråting (Uppsala): Visualization in mathematics
- David Corfield
(Tübingen): Why and how to write a
history of higher-dimensional algebra
PDF file of the slides - Kenny Easwaran (Berkeley CA): The Role of Axioms in Mathematics
- Curtis
Franks (Notre Dame IN): David Hilbert
as
an Epistemological Naturalist
PDF file of the slides - Valeria Giardino (Roma): Mathematical perception and diagrams
- Brendan
Larvor (Hatfield): Whose Job is it to
Study Mathematical Practice?
PDF file of the slides - Felix Mühlhölzer (Göttingen): Mathematics and the Lifeworld
- Oliver Petersen (Duisburg-Essen): Some Wittgensteinian Reflections on the Jaffe/Quinn-Thurston Debate on Theoretical Mathematics and Mathematical Proof
- Johanna Pejlare (Uppsala): Felix Klein and the Role of Intuition in Mathematics
- Dirk Schlimm (Montréal QC): On the importance of asking the right research questions: Could Jordan have proved the Jordan-Hölder Theorem?
- Michael Stöltzner (Bielefeld): On the Ontology of Theoretical Mathematics
- Niko Strobach (Rostock): Teaching logic with good conscience - Experiences in moderate formalism
David Corfield posted a blog entry on the workshop on his blog The n-Category Café: blog entry.