Philosophical Café: TO AND FRO. Physics and Modern Applications of Rationality

V Klubu Jazz Republic, Jilská 1a, Praha 1 se koná filofické setkání a diskuse v anglické jazyce s akademiky Joan Bertran-San Millán, Vera Matarese a Aldo Filomeno.

Téma:  1) Frege as the Founder of Modern Logic (Joan Bertran-San Millán)
Frege's contributions to logic are traditionally considered to mark the starting point of modern logic. I will evaluate this claim and compare Frege's leading work on logic with that of some of his contemporaries. The focus of this evaluation will be the relation between mathematics and logic and Frege's critique of a psychological foundation of logic.

2) On the Relation between Ontology and Epistemology in Physical Theorizing (Vera Matarese)
Since modern physical theories are formulated in mathematical language, we must look at mathematics in order to understand what these theories tell us about the physical world. But in what ways does mathematics reveal the nature of the world? Either we let mathematics dictate the structure of our physical world, or we use our intuitions and subjective understanding of the world as guides to interpret mathematical formalism. In my talk, I will discuss these two options and argue for a middle way that appeals to some new epistemological principles.

3) Reasoning under Uncertainty (Aldo Filomeno)
A variety of arguments in philosophy and science recur to probabilities. For instance, consider the 'anthropic cosmological principle', which is based on recent discoveries in cosmology to support the existence of the multiverse or the existence of God. This argument, however, is implicitly assigning unwarranted probabilities. My project consists in the assessment of arguments of this sort found in philosophy and science, in light of proper assignations of the probabilities.

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