Join us on June 4-5, 2015 for the fifteenth annual Philosophy of Logic, Math and Physics (LMP) graduate student conference at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.
Date and time:
- June 4, 2015, 9:30am to 5pm,
- June 5, 9:30am to 3:30pm
Location: Stevenson Hall Room 1145, Western University (London, Ontario)
Keynote Speaker: Elaine Landry (UC Davis)
Attendance is free. For registration and information: uwolmp. Visit.
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Detailed program
June 4, 2015
9:30am Travis Lacroix (Simon Fraser University),
“Fractionally Quantified Propositional Logic”
10:45am Jordan Kroll (University of Massachusetts, Amherst),
“Defending the Easy Road to Nominalism”
11:45am Lunch
1:00pm David Schroeren (Princeton University),
“Theoretical Equivalence as Explanatory Equivalence”
2:15pm Andrew Tedder (University of Connecticut),
“The Ternary Relation and Restrictions on Inconsistent Belief”
3:30pm Keynote Address: Elaine Landry (University of California, Davis),
“Plato was NOT a Mathematical Platonist”
5:00pm End of Day 1
June 5, 2015
9:30am Andy Yu (Oxford University),
“Logic for Alethic Pluralists”
10:45am John Dougherty (University of California, San Diego),
“What Inductive Explanations Could Not Be”
11:45am Lunch
1:00pm Michael Miller (University of Pittsburgh),
“The Underdetermination of Field Theoretic Structure”
2:15pm Lucas Dunlap (University of Maryland),
“The Metaphysics of D-CTCs: On the Underlying Assumptions of Deutsch’s Quantum Solution to the Paradoxes of Time Travel”
3:15pm Awarding of the Robert K. Clifton Memorial Book Prize
The LMP Philosophy Graduate Conference is supported by Western’s Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Department of Philosophy and Department of English Studies, the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, the Society of Graduate Students, and Oxford University Press.
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