SoCal HPLM Group

The "Southern California History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Group" was inaugurated in January 2009. It provides a forum for discussing new work in the philosophy of logic and mathematics as approached from a historically informed perspective. Given the interests and expertise of its initial members (see below), the primary focus of the group is on the period from Kant to the present and on works in early analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and neo-Kantianism. But this is not meant in any exclusive sense, i.e., we are open to considering other periods, schools, and thinkers too.

Founding members:

• Erich Reck, University of California at Riverside
• Clinton Tolley, University of California at San Diego
• Jeremy Heis, University of California at Irvine

Meeting Schedule:

For some related events in the area, see also here (OC/IE HPML group) and here (Claremont History of Mathematics Seminar).

Next Meetings [all postponed because of Covid-19 virus]:

• New date TBA, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—talk by Alexander Paseau, Oxford University (title TBA)

• New date TBA, UC Riverside, Dept. of Philosophy (co-organized with OC/IE HPML group)—talk by Sean Walsh, UCLA (title TBA)

• New date TBA, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—talk by Sean Morris, MSU Denver (date still tentative, title TBA)

Past Meetings:

2020

• February, 14, 2020, UC Riverside, Center for Ideas and Society (co-organized with OC-IE HPML group)—Leibniz and Infinitesimals workshop: Adam Harmer (UC Riverside), "Mereological Nihilism and Simple Substance in Leibniz"; and Richard Arthur (McMaster University, Canada) & David Rabouin (University of Paris-Diderot, France), "Leibniz's Syncategorematic Infinitesimals II: Their Existence, their Use and their Role in the Justification of the Differential Calculus".

2019

• Related Event: November 8, 2019, Chapman University—OCIE Research Workshop in History and Philosophy of Science and Logic: Andrew Moshier & Alexander Kurz (Chapman University),"Relations in Ordered Categories: Why and How"; John Mumma (CS San Bernardino), "The Logic of Counting Claims"; and Jeffrey Oaks (University of Indianapolis), "Francois Viete's Revolution in Algebra".

• October 11, 2019, 4-6pm, UC Riverside, Dept. of Philosophy (co-organized with OC/IE HPML group)—talk by Gila Sher, UC San Diego, "Invariance as a Basis for Necessity and Laws"

• March 4, 2019, 3-5pm, Chapman University (co-organized with OC/IE HPML group)—talk by Georg Schiemer, "How Geometry Became Structural"

• Related event: March 1, 2019, UC Irvine, LPS Department and Center for Logic—Frege-Fest VI, with talks by Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt/UCI), Rachel Boddy (UC Davis), Guenther Eder (Salzburg), and Robert May (UC Davis)

• Febr. 25, 2019, 3-5pm, UC Riverside, Dept. of Philosophy (co-organized with OC/IE HPML group)—talk by Joan Bertran-San Millan, "From Begriffsschrift to Grundlagen: Frege's Transition from Function to Concept"

2018

• May 25, 3-5pm, UC Riverside, Dept. of Philosophy—talk by Brice Halimi, "The Connection of Logical Universality and Logical Necessity"

• Related event: April 13-14, 2018, California Institute of Technology, Einstein Papers Archive—conference, Anachronism(s) in the History of Mathematics, with talks by Karine Chemla, Jacqueline Feke, Martina Schneider, Kim Plofker, Niccolo Guicciardini, Joe Dauben, George Smith, Craig Fraser, Jemma Lorenat, and Jeremy Gray

• March 19, 2018, 3-6pm, UC Riverside, Dept. of Philosophy (co-organized with OC/IE HPML group)—history and philosophy of geometry workshop, with two talks: (i) Michael Detlefsen, "Pasch & Hilbert and their Different Conceptions of Rigor"; (ii) Vincenzo De Risi, "Continuity and the Foundations of Geometry: from Euclid to Leibniz"

• Related event (LPS colloquium): March 2, 2018, 3-5pm, UC Irvine—talk by Vincenzo De Risi, "Drawing Lines through Rivers and Cities: The Meaning and Evolution of the Notion of a 'Postulate' in Geometry"

• January 19, 2018, 4-6pm, UC Riverside, Dept. of Philosophy—talk by Jemma Lorenat, "Algebraic Symbols and Geometrical Reality in the Writings of Charlotte Angas Scott"

2017

• December 1, 2017, 2-4pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—talk by Lisa Shabel, "Kant on the 'Ostensive Construction' of Mathematical Concepts"

• November 10, 2017, 11am-1pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—talk by Roy Cook, "The Liar Paradox in Frege's Grundgesetze"

• June 6, 2017, 5-7pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—talk by Francesca Biagioli, "Cassirer's Philosophy of the Concept of Function and Nineteenth-Century Geometry"

• May 4, 2017, 3-5pm, Chapman University, Department of Philosophy—talk by Pierre Wagner, "Intuition and Form in Carnap's Der Raum"

2016

• June 15, 2016, 11am-1pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Walter Dean & Sean Walsh, "The Prehistory of the Subsystems of Second-Order Arithmetic"

• June 10, 2016, 3-4:30pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Daniel Sutherland, "Kant's Applied Mathematics"

• Related Event: April 8, 2016, UC Irvine, LPS Department—Frege-Fest V (this year: Frege-Dedekind-Fest), with talks by Ansten Klev, Rebecca Morris, Erich Reck, and Marcus Rossberg (cf. http://philevents.org/event/show/21842)

• January 16, 2016, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—workshop, Roots of Mathematical Structuralism, with talks by Jeremy Heis, Sean Morris, Erich Reck, Georg Schiemer, and Clinton Tolley

2015

• December 10, 2015, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Marco Giovanelli, "Hermann Cohen's Das Prinzip der Infinitesimal-Methode"

• Related Event: March 7, 2015, SoCal PhilMath + PhilLogic + FoM Workshop 6, UC Irvine, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science—with talks by Megan Fairchild, Kevin Kelly, Erich Reck, and Tony Roy (cf. http://philevents.org/event/show/16587)

• March 2, 2015, 11am-1pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Jean-Yves Beziau, "The Relativity and Universality of Logic"

• February 26, 2015, 2-4pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy, talk by Bernd Buldt, "Was Hilbert a Kantian?"

2014

• November 24, 2014, 10am-noon, UC Irvine, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science—discussion of a paper by Sean Walsh and Tim Button, "Ideas and Results in Model Theory: Reference, Realism, Structure, and Categoricity"

• Related Event: October 24, 2014, 3-5pm, UC Irvine, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science—talk by Paolo Mancosu, "In Good Company: On Hume's Principle and the Assignment of Numbers to Infinite Concepts"

• Related Event: October 11, 2014, 9am-6pm, UC Irvine, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science—workshop on The Logic, Metaphysics, and Semantics of Identity; organized by K. Wehmeier; with talks by K. Wehmeier, R. Trueman, F. Amijee, M. Weiss, S. Lawsky, and A. Burgess (cf. http://www.calpha.ss.uci.edu/node/26139)

• January 23, 2014, 2:30-4:00pm, UC Irvine, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science—discussion of a paper by Dirk Schlimm, "Klein and Pasch on Intuition and Proofs"

2013

• December 9, 2013, 11am-12:30pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Otávio Buena, "Logic and Metaphysical Presuppositions"

• Related Event: April 20, 2013, UCLA, Philosophy Department—Workshop III in the philosophy of logic, mathematics, etc., organized by G. Uzquiano, S. Walsh and Eileen Nutting, with talks by A. Antonelli, M. Balaguer, and W.W. Tait (cf. http://www.lps.uci.edu/lps_socalphilmath)

• April 17, 2013, 11am-12:30pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Carl Posy, "Systematicity and Semantics: Kant on the Unity of the Proposition"

• Related Event: April 12-13, 2013, UC Irvine, LPS Department—FregeFest IV, with talks by Patricia Blanchette, Peter Hylton, Michael Kremer, Alex Oldemeier, Agustin Rayo ,and Clinton Tolley (cf. http://www.lps.uci.edu/node/15607)

• Related Event: February 16, 2013, UC Irvine, LPS Department—Workshop II in the philosophy of logic, mathematics, etc., organized by G. Uzquiano & S. Walsh, with talks by J. Mumma, D. Edgington, and M. Rescorla (cf. http://www.lps.uci.edu/lps_socalphilmath)

2012

• October 12, 2012, 11am-12:30pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Oron Shagrir, "Who is the Human Computer?"

• Related Event: October 6, 2012, USC, Department of Philosophy—Workshop I in the philosophy of logic, mathematics, etc., organized by G. Uzquiano & S. Walsh, with talks by H. Hodes, G. Sher, and D. Martin (cf. www.lps.uci.edu/lps_socalphilmath)

• March 14, 2012, 10am-12am, UC Irvine, LPS Department—discussion of a paper by André Carus, "From Analysis to Explication"

• February 24, 2012, 10am-12am, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Joshua Schwartz, "'Truth and Disquotation': On Quine's contribution to the 1971 Berkeley symposium for Tarski"

• January 27, 2012, 10am-12am, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Erich Reck, "Frege, Dedekind, and the Origins of Logicism"

2011

• Related Event: November 30, 2011, 3-5pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—colloquium talk by Julia Tanney, "Ryle's Conceptual Cartography"

• June 13, 2011, 11am-1pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Clinton Tolley, "The Relation between Logic and Ontology in (and after) Kant"

• Related Event: May 28, 2011, UC Irvine, LPS Department—conference "Themes in the History of Analytic Philosophy" (cf. www.lps.uci.edu/home/conferences/analytic-workshop-2011/index.html)

• March 14, 2011, 1-3pm, UC Irvine, LPS Department—presentation by Robert May, "Leibniz's Problem, Frege's Puzzle"

2010

• December 3, 2010, 11am-1pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—talk by Marco Giovanelli, "Leibniz Equivalence: On Leibniz’s (Bad) Influence on Logical Empiricist Interpretations of General Relativity"

• November 10, 2010, 3-5pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy (INTS 1111)—colloquium talk by Audrey Yap, "Dedekind and Cassirer on Mathematical Concept Formation"

• October 6, 2010, 11am-1pm, UC Irvine, LPS Department—discussion of a paper by Brian Rogers & Kai Wehmeier, "Tractarian First-Order Logic: Identity and the N-Operator"

• April 30, 2010, 11am-1pm, UC Irvine, LPS Department—discussion of a paper by Penelope Maddy, "Objectivity in Mathematics"

• April 6, 2010, 11am-1pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—discussion of a paper by Andrew Beck, "Syntax, Semantics, and Logical Formality"

• January 27, 2010, 11am-1pm, UC Irvine, LPS Department—discussion of a paper by Jeremy Heis, "Frege, Lotze, and Boole"

2009

• December 4, 2009, 12-2pm, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy—presentation by Gila Sher, "The Foundations of Logic, Logical Consequence & Logical Constants"

• November 14, 2009, 2-4pm, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena—discussion of paper by André Carus, entitled "History and the Future of Logical Empiricism"

• May 22, 2009, 3-5pm, UC Irvine, Department of Philosophy—colloquium talk by Clinton Tolley, "Kant and Frege on the Place of Subjectivity within Logic"

• May 7, 2009, 2-4pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—presentation by Erich Reck, "Carnapian Explication and its Rivals"

• March 16, 2009, 10-12am, UC Irvine, LPS Department—presentation by Georg Schiemer, "Carnap's Early Semantics: Models, Model Extensions, and Analyticity"

• February 25, 2009, 3-5pm, UC Riverside, Department of Philosophy—colloquium talk by Jeremy Heis, "Concepts from Kant to Frege"