[FOM] Addendum: CFP: Perspectives on Mathematical Practices

[Bart Van Kerkhove]

Please take note of the following addendum to my previous message, a  
couple of days ago.
The list of invited speakers at PMP2007 also includes Gianluigi  
Oliveri (Palermo, Italy).
Our apologies. What follows below is the complete, now rectified  
message:


Second Perspectives on Mathematical Practices conference
26 - 28 March 2007, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

The general philosophical theme of this meeting will be that of why  
and how philosophers and historians of mathematics need each other.  
This takes for granted the thesis, ventilated by Lakatos, that they  
do so. One is here referring, of course, to his famous paraphrase of  
Kantian dictum: "The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of  
philosophy, has become blind, while the philosophy of mathematics,  
turning its back on the most intruiging phenomena in the history of  
mathematics, has become empty".

Any serious attempt at remedying this, and thus approaching the  
history and philosophy of mathematics, will either have to "bring to"  
philosophers the historian's expertise of conducting meticulous  
diachronical case-studies, or else "bring to" historians the  
philosopher's concern with epistemological depth; preferably both.  
Moreover, a focus on the historical dimension of mathematical  
practices is not to the exclusion of contemporary themes. To the  
contrary: Lakatos's point pertains to the historicity of mathematical  
knowledge, past and present.

Invited speakers: David Corfield (Tübingen, Germany) - José Ferreiros  
(Seville, Spain) - Jens Hoyrup (Roskilde, Denmark) - Brendan Larvor  
(Hertfordshire, UK) - Paolo Mancosu (Berkeley CA, US) - Gianluigi  
Oliveri (Palermo, Italy) - Yehuda Rav (Paris, France)

Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2006.

For more and detailed information, visit http://www.vub.ac.be/CLWF/ 
PMP2007.