(New) 9 November 2026, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group
Title: Silviu-Constantin Federovici | From Genesis to Normativity in Brouwers Intuitionism
Date: Monday 9 November 2026
Time: 17:30-19:00
Location: ILLC Seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
For the second session of the year, we are pleased to invite a speaker who is currently a Junior Fellow at the Descartes Centre, Utrecht University. Silviu’s talk will be on Intuitionism – a topic we decided on based on popular vote last session. See below for details of the talk.
Speaker: Silviu-Constantin Federovici
Affliation: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania
Intuitionism is considered a systematic challenge to certain classical principles of mathematics, yet its viability as a substitute remains widely contested (e.g., Tait 1983).
For more information, see
https://events.illc.uva.nl/Phi-Math/events/2026-11-09-silviu-constantin-federovici-genesis-brouwer/
or contact Isabel Trindade at isabel.trindade at student.uva.nl, Lyra So at lyra.so at student.uva.nl, or Marco De Mayda at marco.de.mayda at student.uva.nl.