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12 May 2022, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group, Elias Bronner
Speaker: Elias Bronner
Title: Mereology as a Foundation for Mathematics
Date: Thursday 12 May 2022
Time: 19:00-21:00
Location: Room B1.19A, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
This time we take a recourse to mereology! In his talk, Elias Bronner will introduce the philosophical motivations for the field, Leśniewski's nominalistic position. Further, we will discuss basic mereology and its relation to Boolean Algebras. Elias will conclude with touching upon a recent interpretation of mereology within set theory by J.D. Hamkins which suggests that mereology is too weak of a system to serve as a foundation for mathematics.
For more information, see
https://sites.google.com/view/phi-math/meetings
or contact Jan Gronwald at jan.gronwald at student.uva.nl.
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