Mathematical Analysis and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy

Funded by the British Academy, as part of a joint BA/CNRS funded project run by Michael Beaney (York) and Marco Panza (Paris)

Speakers:

• Sebastien Gandon: 'Russell on neutral monism and geometrical classification'
• Jeremy Gray: 'Poincaré: knowledge, social knowledge and theory change'
• Gerhard Heinzmann: 'Poincaré and the origins of analytic philosophy'
• Jeremy Heis: 'Cassirer on "Substance-concepts" and "Function-concepts"'
• Daniel Isaacson: 'Dedekind, Hilbert, Carnap, and the axiomatic method'
• Igor Ly: 'Poincaré's Philosophical Views on Analysis'
• Ken Manders: 'Expressive resources for mathematical analysis'
• Jean-Philippe Narboux: 'Frege and Wittgenstein on Piecemeal Definitions in Mathematics'
• Marco Panza: 'Lagrange and Frege: two ways of founding mathematics on functions (rather than on sets)'
• Fabrice Pataut: 'Mathematical Objects and Mathematical Knowledge'

Organizer: Mike Beaney

• Mathematical Analysis conference programme (PDF , 68kb)