[FOM] FINAL CFP and *EXTENDED DEADLINE*: SoTFoM II `Competing Foundations?', 12-13 January 2015, London.

[Neil Barton]

FINAL CFP and *EXTENDED DEADLINE*: SoTFoM II `Competing Foundations?',
12-13 January 2015, London.

The focus of this conference is on different approaches to the
foundations of mathematics. The interaction between set-theoretic and
category-theoretic foundations has had significant philosophical
impact, and represents a shift in attitudes towards the philosophy of
mathematics. This conference will bring together leading scholars in
these areas to showcase contemporary philosophical research on
different approaches to the foundations of mathematics. To accomplish
this, the conference has the following general aims and objectives.
First, to bring to a wider philosophical audience the different
approaches that one can take to the foundations of mathematics.
Second, to elucidate the pressing issues of meaning and truth that
turn on these different approaches. And third, to address
philosophical questions concerning the need for a foundation of
mathematics, and whether or not either of these approaches can provide
the necessary foundation.

Date and Venue: 12-13 January 2015 - Birkbeck College, University of London.

Confirmed Speakers: Sy David Friedman (Kurt Goedel Research Center,
Vienna), Victoria Gitman (CUNY), James Ladyman (Bristol), Toby Meadows
(Aberdeen).

Call for Papers: We welcome submissions from scholars (in particular,
young scholars, i.e. early career researchers or post-graduate
students) on any area of the foundations of mathematics (broadly
construed). While we welcome submissions from all areas concerned with
foundations, particularly desired are submissions that address the
role of and compare different foundational approaches. Applicants
should prepare an extended abstract (maximum 1,500 words) for blind
review, and send it to sotfom [at] gmail [dot] com, with subject
`SOTFOM II Submission'.

Submission Deadline: 31 October 2014

Notification of Acceptance: Late November 2014

Scientific Committee: Philip Welch (University of Bristol), Sy-David
Friedman (Kurt Goedel Research Center), Ian Rumfitt (University of
Birmigham), Carolin Antos-Kuby (Kurt Goedel Research Center), John
Wigglesworth (London School of Economics), Claudio Ternullo (Kurt
Goedel Research Center), Neil Barton (Birkbeck College), Chris
Scambler (Birkbeck College), Jonathan Payne (Institute of Philosophy),
Andrea Sereni (Universita  Vita-Salute S. Raffaele), Giorgio Venturi
(CLE, Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

Organisers: Sy-David Friedman (Kurt Goedel Research Center), John
Wigglesworth (London School of Economics), Claudio Ternullo (Kurt
Goedel Research Center), Neil Barton (Birkbeck College), Carolin
Antos-Kuby (Kurt Goedel Research Center)

Conference Website: sotfom [dot] wordpress [dot] com

Further Inquiries: please contact
Carolin Antos-Kuby (carolin [dot] antos-kuby [at] univie [dot] ac [dot] at)
Neil Barton (bartonna [at] gmail [dot] com)
Claudio Ternullo (ternulc7 [at] univie [dot] ac [dot] at)
John Wigglesworth (jmwigglesworth [at] gmail [dot] com)

The conference is generously supported by the Mind Association,
British Logic Colloquium, and Birkbeck College.