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3 June 2022, Cool Logic, Evan Iatrou & Jan Gronwald

Speaker: Evan Iatrou & Jan Gronwald
Title: MoL Wars: The Academy Strikes Back
Date: Friday 3 June 2022
Time: 16:00-17:30
Location: Room D1.115, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

In the era of scientism, platonists have gotten used to being the laughing stock of the philosophy of mathematics community. Postulating the existence of non-spatiotemporal objects and "mystic" ways of knowing true propositions about those objects seems more like Greek mythology than possible metaphysical and epistemic truths. Among the popular alternatives to Platonism that ground mathematical ontology & epistemology to the "real" world is that of Brouwer's Intuitionism, a position grounded on our perception of time and hence, by default, spatiotemporal.

In the first ever joint event between the Cool Logic and Φ-math organisers and in the first ever Cool Logic debate, Evan will strike back against intuitionists by presenting evidence from experimental cognitive psychology that falsifies the foundation of their position and that does justice to Plato. On the opposition, Jan will defend his Master - Brouwer - by arguing that Evan's arguments are nothing but another lame excuse by platonists to live in fairyland.

For more information, see https://coollogic.wixsite.com/website/event-details/mol-wars-the-academy-strikes-back or contact Vasiliy Romanovskiy, Tibo Rushbrooke at .

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