Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Monday - Week 6, HT24)

Name: Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Monday - Week 6, HT24)
Start: 2024-02-19T16:30:00+0000
End: 2024-02-19T16:30:00+0000

19 February 2024

Online Only

Sharon Berry (Indiana University Bloomington): 'Mathematical access worries and accounting for knowledge of logical coherence'

A range of current truth-value realist philosophies of mathematics allow one to reduce the Benacerraf Problem to a problem concerning mathematicians' ability to recognize which conceptions of pure mathematical structures are coherent - in a sense which can be cashed out in terms of logical possibility. In this paper, I will clarify what it takes to solve this 'residual' access problem and then present a framework for solving it.

The meeting will be online only. Those who wish to attend via Zoom, please write to Daniel Isaacson.

_{Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar Convenors: Daniel Isaacson, Christopher Scambler}_{and James Studd}