{"id":9462,"date":"2020-05-05T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=9462"},"modified":"2020-10-19T20:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:09:20","slug":"from-the-vaults-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Vaults: The Trouble with Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Nicholas Bingham\/ Tim Button\/ Mary Leng\/ Adam Ostaszewski<!--more--><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen to the recording<\/span> <a 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 style=\"color: #000000\"> or on<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/y8Svg3PMHOo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/n.bingham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicholas Bingham<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of Mathematics, Imperial College London<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/people.ds.cam.ac.uk\/tecb2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Button<\/a><br \/>\nSenior Lecturer\u00a0in Philosophy, University of Cambridge<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/philosophy\/staff\/mary-leng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary Leng<\/a><br \/>\nSenior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of York<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/researchandexpertise\/experts\/profile.aspx?KeyValue=a.j.ostaszewski%40lse.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">Adam Ostaszewski<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor\u00a0of Mathematics,\u00a0LSE<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/clare-moriarty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clare Moriarty<\/a><br \/>\nIRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Trinity College Dublin &amp; Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 19 March 2018 at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How seriously should we take philosophical worries about mathematics? And should mathematical results ever force our philosophical hands? 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