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Friday, 20 September 2013.

Saturday, 21 September 2013.

10:00-11:00 Catherine Goldstein: This side of infinity
McCrum Lecture Theatre
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-11:45 John Wigglesworth: Modal set theory
Harley-Mason Room
Gabriel Tarziu: Infinities in Science
Law Room
11:45-12:15 Matthew Parker: Gödel's argument for Cantor's Cardinals
Harley-Mason Room
Susan Edwards-Mckie: Wittgenstein, Einstein and Leibniz: Härte des Logischen Zwangs and Unendliche Möglichkeit. Some remarks arising from Wittgenstein's 'Cosmic Fragment'
Law Room
12:15-12:45 Philip Ehrlich: Cantorian and non-Cantorian Theories of Finite, Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers and the Unification Thereof
Harley-Mason Room
Andrew Nicholson: Plenitudinous Platonism, the Multiverse of Sets and Infinity
Law Room
12:45-14:00 Lunch & Registration
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:30 Opening Session
McCrum Lecture Theatre
14:30-15:30 Matthew Inglis: Reading about Cardinality
McCrum Lecture Theatre
14:00-15:00 Michael Potter: Making sense of potential infinity
McCrum Lecture Theatre
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break 15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:50-16:20 Norman Sieroka: Anaximanders notion of the "apeiron" – A forerunner of the modern concept of infinity?
Harley-Mason Room
Sam Sanders: The ghosts of departed quantities as the soul of computation
Law Room
15:15-15:45 Carolin Antos, Sy-David Friedman, Radek Honzik, Claudio Ternullo: Multiverse conceptions and the hyperuniverse programme
Harley-Mason Room
Françoise Monnoyeur-Broitman: Nicholas of Cusa's Methodology of the Infinite
Law Room
16:20-16:50 Tamer Nawar: An Aristotelian Approach to Infinite Causal Sequences
Harley-Mason Room
Marco Forti: How to measure the size of sets: Aristotle-Euclid or Cantor-Zermelo?
Law Room
15:45-16:15 Peter Koepke: Embedding uncountable cardinality techniques into the realm of countable sets
Harley-Mason Room
Murtaza Chopra: The musical inspiration of procedures involving infinite in Nicole Oresme's Treaties of Configurations
Law Room
16:50-17:20 Pieter Sjoerd Hasper: Aristotle on infinity
Harley-Mason Room
Markus Pantsar: In search of \(\aleph_0\) – how infinity can be created
Law Room
16:15-16:45 Benjamin Rin: Infinity and recursion
Harley-Mason Room
Sean Winkler: Being of Essence, Being of Existence: Spinoza and The Finite
Law Room
17:20-17:40 Coffee Break 16:45-17:15 Coffee Break
17:40-18:40 Charles Parsons: Infinity and a critical view of logic
McCrum Lecture Theatre
17:15-18:15 Adriane Rini: Aristotle on Thomson's lamp
McCrum Lecture Theatre
 

Sunday, 22 September 2013.

Monday, 23 September 2013.

10:00-11:00 John Mason: The Role of the As-Yet-Specified as a Bridge between Unfolding & Completed Infinity in Teaching & Learning Mathematics
McCrum Lecture Theatre
10:00-11:00 Christian Tapp: Infinity in Aquinas
McCrum Lecture Theatre
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:15-11:45 Ramzi Kebaili: Poincaré and Brouwer on infinity
Harley-Mason Room
Sara L. Uckelman The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity
Law Room
11:30-12:30 Jean Paul Van Bendegem: A true(r) history of strict finitism
McCrum Lecture Theatre
11:45-12:15 Erich Reck: On Dedekind's Explanation of the Finite in Terms of the Infinite
Harley-Mason Room
João Cortese: The Pascalian notion of infinity – what does "infinite distance" mean?
Law Room
12:30-12:45 Closing Session
McCrum Lecture Theatre
12:15-12:45 Silvia De Bianchi: When series go in indefinitum, ad infinitum and in infinitum. Concepts of infinity in Kant's philosophy and cosmology
Harley-Mason Room
Henrik Kragh Sørensen: Infinity and intuition in analysis between Euler and Weierstraß
Law Room
12:45-13:50 Lunch
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break
13:50-14:50 Dina Tirosh & Pessia Tsamir: Teaching and learning about infinity: The case of infinite sets
McCrum Lecture Theatre
14:50-15:10 Coffee Break
15:10-15:40 Monica Solomon: The Case of Infinite Series: Wallis and Newton
Harley-Mason Room
Christopher Menzel: Modal Realism and the Absolute Infinite
Law Room
15:40-16:10 Helmut Pulte: "Understanding the World from the infinitely small": Bernhard Riemann's Philosophy of Geometry and Science in Context
Harley-Mason Room
Yoshihiro Maruyama: Continuous vs. Discrete Infinity in Foundations of Mathematics and Physics
Law Room
16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Luca Incurvati: Finitism and open-texture
McCrum Lecture Theatre
17:30-18:30 Haim Gaifman: Infinity and the passage from the epistemic to the ontological
McCrum Lecture Theatre
19:30-late Conference Dinner
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