BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2021/newsitem/13004/8- --10-December-2021-Workshop-Mathematics-as-in-Scie nce-Gent-Belgium DTSTAMP:20210925T154057 SUMMARY:Workshop "Mathematics as/in Science", Gent , Belgium DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211210 LOCATION:Gent, Belgium DESCRIPTION:The relationship between mathematics a nd science continues to be of considerable philoso phical interest. Within contemporary philosophy of science, for example, pinpointing the exact role of mathematics in the sciences remains a hotly deb ated issue. Does mathematics play a mere inferenti al role in that it allows for the derivations of o ne substantial truth from another or is mathematic s more than a 'theoretical juice-extractor'? Are t here distinctive mathematical explanations of phys ical phenomena? Similar questions can be asked abo ut the role of logic in science. These issues con nect with discussions within the philosophy of mat hematics (and the philosophy of logic) concerning the nature of mathematics (or logic). Within the p hilosophy of mathematics, Platonists, nominalists and structuralists consider mathematics to be fund amentally different in kind from empirical science , while empiricists have argued that mathematics i s, just like other sciences, fundamentally about a spects of the empirical world. Different positions within the debate about the nature of mathematics will, arguably, lead to different answers to the question as to how mathematics and science are rel ated. In this workshop we want to focus on how th ese different philosophies of mathematics fare in giving an account of mathematical practice and the role of mathematics in scientific practice. We w elcome contributions that approach these (and rela ted) topics either from a systematic or a historic angle. In other words, we welcome contributions t hat elaborate and defend your own position, but al so contributions that discuss the views that philo sophers and scientists had on these topics in the past. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The relat ionship between mathematics and science continues to be of considerable philosophical interest. With in contemporary philosophy of science, for example , pinpointing the exact role of mathematics in the sciences remains a hotly debated issue. Does math ematics play a mere inferential role in that it al lows for the derivations of one substantial truth from another or is mathematics more than a 'theore tical juice-extractor'? Are there distinctive math ematical explanations of physical phenomena? Simil ar questions can be asked about the role of logic in science.
\n\nThese issues connect with discussions within the philosophy of mathematics ( and the philosophy of logic) concerning the nature of mathematics (or logic). Within the philosophy of mathematics, Platonists, nominalists and struct uralists consider mathematics to be fundamentally different in kind from empirical science, while em piricists have argued that mathematics is, just li ke other sciences, fundamentally about aspects of the empirical world. Different positions within th e debate about the nature of mathematics will, arg uably, lead to different answers to the question a s to how mathematics and science are related.
\ n\nIn this workshop we want to focus on how t hese different philosophies of mathematics fare in giving an account of mathematical practice and th e role of mathematics in scientific practice.
< /div>We welcome contributions that app roach these (and related) topics either from a sys tematic or a historic angle. In other words, we we lcome contributions that elaborate and defend your own position, but also contributions that discuss the views that philosophers and scientists had on these topics in the past.