Schedule
Monday May 8, 2023
9.00 - 9.30: Reception and Registration
9.30 - 9.40: Welcome
9.40 - 11.00: Masterclass Juliet Floyd
Formal Generality in the Tractatus, logic as tautological, proof in logic as a “mechanical expedient”, the Entscheidungsproblem. The Satzsystem conception of the Middle Period, induction and surveyability.
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break
11.30 - 12.30: Masterclass Juliet Floyd
Wittgenstein and Turing’s 1936 “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem”. The Blue and Brown Books. Changes in Wittgenstein’s views in 1936-1938: the “anthropological” point of view and the notions of Regelmässigkeit, Lebensform and technique. Diagonal argumentation in Cantor and Turing. Occasion sensitivity. Turing’s analysis of “computability”.
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30 - 14.10: Francesco Nugnes (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)
Wittgenstein's Non-Extensional Approach as a Positive Outlook on Foundational Issues
14.10 - 14.50: Amadeusz Just (University of Warsaw)
Reacting to a Rule – PI §198 in the Context of LFM and RMF
14.50 - 15.30: Chun Cai (University of East Anglia)
Potential Infinity: To What Extent Does Absolute Music Have Open-Ended Meaning in its Temporal Unfolding?
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 16.40: Jordi Fairhurst (KULeuven)
Against a Global Conception of Mathematical Hinges: A Holistic Reading of Wittgenstein and Mathematics in Practice
16.40 - 17.20: Deniz Sarikaya (VUB)
Meaning as Use, Rule-Bending and AI Safety
19.00 - 22.00: Workshop Dinner: Restaurant "Le Mess"
Tuesday May 9, 2023
9.00 - 10.30: Masterclass Juliet Floyd
From Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics to Philosophical Investigations 1939-1947: the non-extensional point of view, working through the very idea of a “foundation” of mathematics. Philosophy of psychology in later Wittgenstein. Turing’s “machines”.
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30: Masterclass Juliet Floyd
Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics 1939-1944: its place in his later philosophy as a whole.
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30 - 14.10: Benjamin Marshall (University of Cambridge)
Wittgenstein and Carnap on Incompleteness and Non-Standard Models
14.10 - 14.50: David Chandler (UCL London)
Wittgenstein's Philosophy After Mathematics
14.50 - 15.30: José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (ENS Paris)
Purifying Applied Mathematics and Applying Pure Mathematics
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 16.40: F.A. Muller (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Wittgenstein Meets Skolem
16.40 - 17.20: Frank Scheppers (VUB)
Hocus Pocus. Critical strands in Wittgenstein’s Work on Mathematics
17.20 - 17.30: Closing statement