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 | VideoDo Modus Ponens and Tollens Really Leak? Remarks from a Linguistic Semanticist | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
2 | VideoPutnam and the Multiverse | Workshop on Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
3 | VideoThe Metaphysics of Lazy Worlds | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
4 | VideoRelativism and Superassertibility | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
5 | VideoThings that don't exist | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
6 | VideoNaive perception, Cartesian scepticism, and the model-theoretic arguments | Workshop on Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
7 | VideoHow to be a Dispositionalist about Modality | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
8 | VideoInternal Realism and Structural Realism | Workshop on Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
9 | VideoMathematical Structuralism and Metaphysical Dependence | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 7/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
10 | VideoRealism about Measurement and Realism about Magnitudes | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 7/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
11 | VideoExistiert Gott? (Teil 2) | Debatte zur Frage "Existiert Gott?" | 7/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
12 | VideoFregean Compositionality | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 7/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
13 | VideoLogic and Metaphysical Presuppositions | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 2/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
14 | VideoMaking Quotation Transparent: A Compositional Analysis of an Apparently Opaque Phenomenon | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 1/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
15 | VideoExistiert Gott? (Teil 1) | Debatte zur Frage "Existiert Gott?" | 1/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
16 | VideoStructural Realism | MCMP Workshop Bridges 2014 | 11/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
17 | VideoInter-Theoretical Relations in Linguistics | MCMP Workshop Bridges 2014 | 10/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
18 | VideoOn the Classification of Diseases | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 2/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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