Conference
Mathematics in the Tradition of Neo-Kantianism
This symposium aims to explore the Neo-Kantian movement’s responses to the fundamental changes in mathematics and to examine how fruitful these responses are for the still-open philosophical questions regarding a methodological foundation for mathematics.
Program
Thursday, March 15, 2018
1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
1:30 p.m. Helmut Pulte – The “Problem of Space” and Non-Euclidean Geometries in Neo-Kantianism
2:30 p.m. Francesca Biagioli – Ernst Cassirer’s Transcendental Justification of Mathematical Concept Formation
3:30 p.m. Coffee break
4:00 p.m. Matthias Neuber – Cassirer, the Foundational Controversy, and the “Ideal Elements” of Mathematics
5:00 PM Daniel Koenig – Cassirer’s Reception of the “Space Problem”
6:00 p.m. Coffee break
6:10 PM Thomas Mormann - On the Mathematical Philosophy of Science of Marburg Neo-Kantianism
7:30 p.m. Dinner together
Friday, March 16, 2018
9:00 a.m. Gottfried Gabriel – Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics in the Context of Neo-Kantianism
10:00 Coffee break
10:15 Christian Thiel - Once Again: The One, Unity, and the Logistic Definition of One
11:15 Kay Herrmann - Leonard Nelson: Mathematical Knowledge as a Synthetic A Priori
12:15 Lunch together
1:15 PM Shafie Shokrani – Leonard Nelson’s Socratic Method and Mathematics
2:15 PM Volker Peckhaus – Nelson-Hessenberg Critical Mathematics
3:15 PM Closing coffee break, including a concluding discussion
