PhiMSAMP

Philosophy of Mathematics: Sociological Aspects and Mathematical Practice
(Philosophie der Mathematik: Soziologische Aspekte und Mathematische Praxis)

PhiMSAMP-2

Utrecht, October 19-21, 2007

Venue. Drift 21, 3512 BR Utrecht, room 003
How to get there. The building is on a gracht next to Janskerkhof in the city center of Utrecht. From the train station, Bus 11 to "De Uithof" takes you to Janskerkhof in a few minutes (3 stops), but it's also a pleasant walk.
Local organization. Thomas Müller.
Description. PhiMSAMP-2 is a workshop of the PhiMSAMP network during which its members collaborate on their research projects. However, part of the workshop is open for the general public, and we cordially invite all researchers and students to join us. In the schedule, internal meetings of the PhiMSAMP group are marked in gray and events open to the public are marked in yellow.
On Friday evening, members of the PhiMSAMP network will present their research results in short talks; the whole Saturday is devoted to tutorials on methodology in the social sciences and cognitive science by leading researchers. These tutorials could be particularly interesting for graduate students who are most enthusiastically invited.

Indicative schedule.

Sunday 21 Oct
Friday 19 Oct
	Around 13:00	Possibility to have lunch together
	After lunch	Joint work session (internal)
	17:00-17:30	Informal Opening of the public part
	17:30-18:00	The concepts of knowledge in mathematical practice - a cluster analysis Eva Wilhelmus. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Germany. PDF file of slides.
	18:00-18:30	Two Ways of Analogy: Extending the study of analogies to mathematical domains Dirk Schlimm. McGill University. Canada.
	18:30-19:00	Let A be Esther Ramharter. Universität Wien. Austria.
	Evening	Dinner with the invited speakers
Saturday 20 Oct
	10:15-11:00	Informal Gathering
	11:00-12:30	*Tutorial Sociology I*. Qualitative research methods in the social sciences Vanessa Dirksen. Universität Konstanz. Germany. PDF file of slides.
	12:30-14:00	Lunch
	14:00-15:30	*Tutorial Cognitive Science I*. The experimental analysis of rationality. Keith Stenning. The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. PDF file of slides.
	15:30-15:50	Break
	15:50-17:20	*Tutorial Sociology II*. Social Networks and Trust Vincent Buskens. Universiteit Utrecht. The Netherlands. PDF file of slides.
	17:20-17:40	Break
	17:40-19:10	*Tutorial Cognitive Science II*. Empirical investigations of numeric skills Hansjörg Neth. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States of America. PDF file of slides.
	Evening	Dinner with the invited speakers
	10:15-18:00	Day of internal work and discussion.