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19-21 October 2012, Numbers & Truth, Gothenburg, Sweden

Date: 19-21 October 2012
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Deadline: 8 August 2012

The conference 'Numbers and truth - the philosophy and mathematics of arithmetic and truth' will be held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, on October 19-21, 2012. Its main objective is to permit an exchange of ideas between truth theorists, philosophers and mathematicians interested in the foundations of mathematics. The conference will contain 10 invited and 4 contributed talks. It will give the researchers an opportunity both to present technical results and to diagnose their philosophical significance.

For more information, see the Conference Website at http://www.numbersandtruth.org/

We invite submissions presenting novel contributions to the area of philosophy of mathematics, arithmetic together with its meta-mathematics and model theory, and formal theory of truth. Both philosophical and technical submissions are welcome; especially ones contributing to the discussion of how truth in mathematics should be properly explained. The extended deadline for submitting extended abstracts is August 8th, 2012.

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