Our finalised program is available below. For those interested in attending, the call for registration is available here.
The basic schedule of the conference is as follows:
Friday 15th September:
9am: Introduction to Conference
9.15am: Luigi Laino, “Between “Construction” and “Structuralism”: Natorp’s and Cassirer’s Assessment of Metageometry”
9.45am: Kate Hindle, “Placing D’Arcy Thompson in the Historiography of Mathematics”
10.15am: Coffee Break
10.30am: Hywel Griffiths, “The effectiveness of mathematics”
11am: Zachary Stanley, “Formalisation and the Definition of the Function Concept”
11.30am: Keynote Speaker Georg Schiemer, “How Geometry Became Structural“
12.30pm: Lunch Break
1.30pm: Benjamin Wilck, “Are Definitions Boundaries of Concepts Only Metaphorically? A Reply to Frege” (Zoom)
2pm: Frederike Lieven, “Intellectual background for the <<New Math>> reform in France and Germany“
2.30pm: Cecilia Neve Jimenez, “A Historic Review of Representations of the <<Mediant>>, Farey sequences and Related Topics”
3pm: Coffee Break
3.30pm: Kaveh Boheiri, “Hegel and Mathematics: Towards the Resolution of a Dilemma”
4pm: Keynote Speaker Zvonimir Šikić, “Are there mathematical concepts that are real?”
Saturday 16th September
9am: Paul-Emmanuel Timotei, “Halphen more geometric than Noether”
9.30am: Mireia Martinez i Sellarès, “The curves are no longer similar”: On the Beginnings of Geometrical Affinity”
10am: Coffee Break
10.30am: Ravi Chakraborty, “From Boole to Cassirer: Algebra as the law of thought and perception” (Zoom)
11am: Marija Šegan-Radonjić, “MIHAILO PETROVIĆ AND THE MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE OF THE SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES”
11.30am: Keynote Speaker Silvia De Toffoli, “Disagreement in Mathematics: Why It Matters?” (Joint work with Claudio Fontanari)
12.30pm: Lunch Break
1.30pm: Benjamin Zayton, “Qualifying the Received View on Urelements in Set Theory”
2pm: Hala Khassiba, “From pure mathematics to applied mathematics: emergence of a new discipline at University of Nancy after the Second World War” (Zoom)
2.30pm: Coffee Break
3pm: Daniel Usma Gomez, “Aquinas and Benacerraf: some remarks on the topicality of medieval philosophy of mathematics” (Zoom)
3.30pm: Keynote Speaker Karine Chemla, “Mathematical collectives according to observers and actors: The historiography of numeration systems and arithmetic”
4.30pm: End of Day
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