[Alta-Logic] Save the date: annual Math Philosophy Lecture

[Richard Zach]

Hello All:

This is a short note to ask you to mark March 18 @ 3:30pm on your 
calendar’s for the Annual Math Philosophy Lecture.  Last year’s lecture 
was cancelled due to COVID, and we have now rescheduled this as a 
virtual event.  Announcements with more details (such as registration 
information) will be coming soon.


  Geometry, Logic, and Philosophy:  The Case of the Parallels Postulate


    Patricia Blanchette
    University of Notre Dame

One of the most important techniques provided by modern logic is the use 
of models to show the consistency of theories. The technique burst onto 
the scene in the late 19th century, and had its most important early 
instance in demonstrating the consistency of non-Euclidean geometries. 
This talk investigates the development of that technique as it 
transitions from a geometric tool to an all-purpose tool of logic. Prof. 
Blanchette argues that the standard narrative, according to which our 
modern technique provides answers to centuries-old questions, is 
mistaken. Once we understand how modern models work, she'll argue, we 
see important differences between the kinds of consistency-claims that 
would have made sense, e.g., to Kant and the kinds of consistency-claims 
that we can demonstrate today. We’ll also see some 
philosophically-interesting shifts, over this time period, in the kinds 
of things that we take proofs to demonstrate.

Patricia Blanchette 
<http://philosophy.nd.edu/people/faculty/patricia-blanchette/> is 
Professor of Philosophy and Glynn Family Honors Collegiate Chair in the 
Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to 
coming to Notre Dame, Blanchette taught in the Department of Philosophy 
at Yale University. Blanchette works in the history and philosophy of 
logic, philosophy of mathematics, history of analytic philosophy, and 
philosophy of language. She is an editor of the /Bulletin of Symbolic 
Logic/, and serves on the editorial boards of the /Notre Dame Journal of 
Formal Logic/ and of /Philosophia Mathematica/. She is the author of 
/Frege’s Conception of Logic/(Oxford University Press 2012).

/This talk is the sixth annual Calgary Mathematics & Philosophy Lecture 
<https://www.ucalgary.ca/mathphil/>, co-sponsored by the /// Departments 
of Philosophy <http://phil.ucalgary.ca/> and /Mathematics 
<http://math.ucalgary.ca/>,/ /PIMS <http://www.pims.math.ca/>, the 
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and the Faculty of 
Science. The Mathematics & Philosophy Lectures aim to introduce topics 
at the intersection of mathematics and philosophy to a general academic 
audience. The event is free & open to the public./

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*Dr. Kristine Bauer*
*Calgary Site Director, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences*
*Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics*
*University of Calgary*



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