U.C. Irvine Workshop

 on the

Philosophy of Mathematics in Application

 

March 8-10, 2002

Hotel Laguna, Laguna Beach, CA

 

Friday, March 8

Saturday, March 9

Sunday, March 10

9:00AM

H. Field

“Saving the Truth

Schema from

Paradox”

9:00AM

J. Earman

“Two Faces of General Covariance"

 

 

9:00AM

D. Albert

“The Object of

Statistical Mechanics and the Scope of the Second Law”

10:30AM

J. Azzouni

“Applied Mathematics:  One Language, Two Interpretations”

 

10:30AM

R. Geroch

“Mathematics vs. Physics”

10:30AM

No speaker

General Discussion

Noon

LUNCH

 

Noon

 

 

LUNCH

 

Noon

LUNCH

 

2:00PM

M. Wilson

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Formalism”

2:00PM

D. Saari

“The Evolving Role of Mathematics in the Social Sciences”

 

 

 

3:30PM

S. Smith

“Are Instantaneous Velocities Real? A Response to Arntzenius and Russell”

3:30PM

H.

Halvorson

“Complementarity of Representations in Quantum Mechanics”

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsored by the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, U.C. Irvine Office of Research and Graduate Studies, the U.C. Irvine Program in History & Philosophy of Science, and the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science.