{"id":5243,"date":"2018-03-19T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T09:32:52","slug":"thetroublewithnumbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/thetroublewithnumbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Nicholas Bingham\/ Tim Button\/ Mary Leng\/ Adam Ostaszewski<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Listen to the recording <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20180320_TheTroubleWithNumbers.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or on <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/y8Svg3PMHOo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">How seriously should philosophical worries about mathematics be taken? And should mathematical results ever force our philosophical hands? Philosophers and mathematicians have often found plenty to disagree about throughout history, but there have been many fruitful interactions too. We indulge in a bit of group therapy, examining some key cases of philosophical and mathematical interaction. Does infinitesimal mathematics commit us to an infinitely divisible world? Do the prime mating cycles of cicadas tell us something about the existence of mathematical objects? Let\u2019s run the numbers\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/n.bingham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicholas Bingham<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Professor of Mathematics, Imperial College London<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nottub.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Button<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Senior Lecturer\u00a0in Philosophy, University of Cambridge<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/philosophy\/staff\/mary-leng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary Leng<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of York<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/Mathematics\/people\/Adam-Ostaszewski\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Adam Ostaszewski<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Professor\u00a0of Mathematics,\u00a0LSE<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/clare-moriarty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clare Moriarty<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Fellow, The Forum<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 19 March 2018 at the LSE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Bingham\/ Tim Button\/ Mary Leng\/ Adam Ostaszewski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":4922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[40,56,121],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-epistemology","tag-metaphysics","tag-philosophy-of-maths"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2017\/11\/the-trouble-with-numbers2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1mz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15679,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions\/15679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}