Philosophy of Mathematics (Monday - Week 5, TT19)

Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar

I put forward a semantic theory of untyped propositions satisfying the equivalence schema.  Propositions are well-founded in a clear sense but are also allowed to exhibit a non-vicious kind of self-reference.  Moreover, they satisfy a fine-grained identity criterion closed under certain (but not all) logical transformations that preserves many shared intuitions.  Time permitting, I will explore a somehow natural extension of this framework to properties.

See the seminar webpage http://users.ox.ac.uk/~philmath/pomseminar.html for titles and abstracts of other speakers when available.


Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar Convenors: Daniel Isaacson and Volker Halbach