The fourth meeting of the interdisciplinary conference series will be devoted to a reflection on the object of interest:

• What are the Formal Sciences?
• How do they differ from the Natural Sciences and the Arts?
• How have they been perceived through history?

The audience of FotFS IV will be philosophers and historians of mathematics and science, and their goal will be to develop both synchronic and diachronic descriptions and classifications of the concept of the Formal Sciences from antiquity to the 21st century.

We would like to invite every interested researcher to present their thoughts on

• the problem of classifying or defining the Formal Sciences,
• the historical development of the Formal Sciences, or
• the relationship of the Formal Sciences to the Natural Sciences and the Arts throughout history or at a particular point in history