4th Seminar on the Philosophy of Mathematics

Organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences

Further information

Invitation pdf

The Seminar will be chaired by Elías Fuentes Guillén and will be broadcast online. For online attendance, please register here.

9:00 – 10:15

José Ferreirós (Universidad de Sevilla): Dedekind and the Wolffian Deductive Method

10:30 – 11:45

Abel Lassalle Casanave (Universidade Federal da Bahia): On the Theory of Magnitudes in Euclid’s Elements: the case of Plane Areas (joint work with Eduardo Giovannini)

12:00 – 13:15

Eduardo Dorrego López (IES Afonso X O Sabio): Practices, methods and concepts: difficulties in interpreting Lambert’s Mémoire

15:00 – 16:15

Davide Crippa (Università Ca’ Foscari / FLÚ AVČR): From geometry to mechanics: the evolution of organic geometry

16:30 – 17:45

María de Paz (Universidad de Sevilla): The methods behind Poincaré’s conventions: structuralism and hypothetical-deductivism