The Titus-Hepp Lecture Series welcomes Eileen Nutting, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, presenting “Field’s Challenge and Mathematical Practice.” Hartry Field raises an epistemological challenge for mathematical platonism: roughly, if mathematics is about causally inert mathematical objects, how could mathematicians so reliably get mathematical truths right? But Field’s challenge presupposes a deeply misguided picture of mathematical practice. Once this picture is corrected, Nutting argues, Field’s epistemological challenge pretty much reduces to an older epistemological challenge — due to Paul Benacerraf — that Field was trying to replace.
Friday Feb 17, 2017
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST
Feb. 17, 2017 at 3:30 p.m.
Samson Talbot Hall, Room 210 Denison University 350 Ridge Road Granville, Ohio 43023
Free and open to the public.
Kate Tull at 740-587-6387
Send Email
Printed courtesy of www.granvilleoh.com/ – Contact the Granville Area Chamber of Commerce for more information.
110 Elm Suite D, Granville, OH 43023 – (740) 587-4490 – chamber@granvilleoh.com