MCMP – Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language
By MCMP Team
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Description
Mathematical Philosophy - the application of logical and mathematical methods in philosophy - is about to experience a tremendous boom in various areas of philosophy. At the new Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, which is funded mostly by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, philosophical research will be carried out mathematically, that is, by means of methods that are very close to those used by the scientists. The purpose of doing philosophy in this way is not to reduce philosophy to mathematics or to natural science in any sense; rather mathematics is applied in order to derive philosophical conclusions from philosophical assumptions, just as in physics mathematical methods are used to derive physical predictions from physical laws. Nor is the idea of mathematical philosophy to dismiss any of the ancient questions of philosophy as irrelevant or senseless: although modern mathematical philosophy owes a lot to the heritage of the Vienna and Berlin Circles of Logical Empiricism, unlike the Logical Empiricists most mathematical philosophers today are driven by the same traditional questions about truth, knowledge, rationality, the nature of objects, morality, and the like, which were driving the classical philosophers, and no area of traditional philosophy is taken to be intrinsically misguided or confused anymore. It is just that some of the traditional questions of philosophy can be made much clearer and much more precise in logical-mathematical terms, for some of these questions answers can be given by means of mathematical proofs or models, and on this basis new and more concrete philosophical questions emerge. This may then lead to philosophical progress, and ultimately that is the goal of the Center.
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| 1 | VideoMathematical Structuralism and Metaphysical Dependence | John Wigglesworth (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (16 July, 2015) titled "Mathematical Structuralism and Metaphysical Dependence". Abstract: The notion of dependence plays various roles in non-eliminative mathematical structuralism. Of pa | 7/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoRealism about Measurement and Realism about Magnitudes | Johanna Wolff (Hong Kong) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (8 July, 2015) titled "Realism about Measurement and Realism about Magnitudes". Abstract: A realist about measurement, roughly speaking, holds that measurements give us information about, or | 7/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoExistiert Gott? (Teil 2) | Winfried Löffler (Innsbruck) nimmt Stellung zum Thema "Existiert Gott?" (8. Dezember 2014) auf der gleichnamigen Veranstaltung und vertritt damit eine gegensätzliche Postion zu Norbert Hoerster (Mainz), ebenfalls Diskutant der Veranstaltung. (Hinweis: | 7/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoFregean Compositionality | Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (25 June, 2015) titled "Fregean Compositionality". Abstract: The distinction between transparent and opaque contexts has always played a major rôle in theories of linguistic semantic | 6/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoLogic and Metaphysical Presuppositions | Otávio Bueno (Miami) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (22 January, 2015) titled "Logic and Metaphysical Presuppositions". Abstract: Does logic (in particular, classical logic) have metaphysical presuppositions? It may be thought that it doesn’t: l | 1/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoMaking Quotation Transparent: A Compositional Analysis of an Apparently Opaque Phenomenon | Markus Werning (Bochum) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (11 December, 2014) titled "Making Quotation Transparent: A Compositional Analysis of an Apparently Opaque Phenomenon". Abstract: Quotation is regarded as a paradigmatically opaque context. Thi | 1/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoExistiert Gott? (Teil 1) | Norbert Hoerster (Mainz) nimmt Stellung zum Thema "Existiert Gott?" (8. Dezember 2014) auf der gleichnamigen Veranstaltung und vertritt damit eine gegensätzliche Postion zu Winfried Löffler (Innsbruck), ebenfalls Diskutant der Veranstaltung. Zusamme | 12/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoStructural Realism | David Chalmers (NYU) meets Thomas Meier (MCMP/LMU) in a joint session on "Structural Realism" (generously supported by the Goethe-Institut New York) at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (2 and 3 Sept, 2014, German House, New York City). The 2-day trans-c | 9/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoInter-Theoretical Relations in Linguistics | Kristina Liefke (MCMP/LMU) meets Lucas Champollion (NYU) in a joint session on "Inter-Theoretical Relations in Linguistics" at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (2 and 3 Sept, 2014, German House, New York City). The 2-day trans-continental meeting in mat | 9/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoDo Modus Ponens and Tollens Really Leak? Remarks from a Linguistic Semanticist | Dietmar Zaefferer (LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (15 May, 2014) titled "Do Modus Ponens and Tollens Really Leak? Remarks from a Linguistic Semanticist". Abstract: Despite considerable progress in formal logic and semantics conditional constru | 5/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoOn the Classification of Diseases | Benjamin Smart (Birmingham) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (18 December, 2013) titled "On the Classification of Diseases". Abstract: Identifying the necessary and sufficient conditions for individuating and classifying diseases is a matter of great | 12/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoRelativism and Superassertibility | Manfred Harth (LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (19 June, 2013) titled "Relativism and Superassertibility". Abstract: Relativism about truth is in vogue these days. More and more areas of thought and language are considered as promising candidat | 7/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThings that don't exist | Tobias Rosefeldt (Berlin) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (5 June, 2013) titled "Things that don't exist". Abstract: Are there things that don’t exist? Several answers seem to be possible here. You can answer ‚yes’ because you are a Mainongian | 6/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoPutnam and the Multiverse | Timothy Bays (Notre Dame) gives a talk at the Workshop on ”Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments" (May 23, 2013) titled "Putnam and the Multiverse". | 5/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoNaive perception, Cartesian scepticism, and the model-theoretic arguments | Tim Button (Cambridge) gives a talk at the Workshop on ”Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments" (May 23, 2013) titled "Naive perception, Cartesian scepticism, and the model-theoretic arguments". | 5/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoInternal Realism and Structural Realism | Kate Hodesdon (Bristol) gives a talk at the Workshop on ”Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments" (May 23, 2013) titled "Internal Realism and Structural Realism". | 5/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoHow to be a Dispositionalist about Modality | Barbara Vetter (Berlin) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (25 April, 2013) titled "How to be a Dispositionalist about Modality". Abstract: In recent years, metaphysicians have become increasingly attracted to the idea that modality is grounded in, or | 4/28/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoThe Metaphysics of Lazy Worlds | Benjamin Smart (Birmingham) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (10 January, 2013) titled "The Metaphysics of Lazy Worlds". Abstract: Although it is not uncommon for philosophers to put the fundamental laws to one side and discuss, say, causal interacti | 1/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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