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Cambridge and Vienna - Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle
Ort: Universität Wien Zeit: 28.– 29. November 2003, 9.00– 18.00 Uhr Aktualisiert: 28. Oktober 2003 |
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International ConferenceThe Institute Vienna Circle, together with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Vienna, is organizing an international conference,Cambridge and Vienna - Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circlein Vienna on 28th–29th November 2003, to commemorate the philosophical and scientific work of Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930). This Ramsey conference is intended to provide not only historical and biographical perspectives on one of the most gifted thinkers of the Twentieth Century, but also new impulses for further research on at least some of the topics pioneered by Ramsey, whose interest and potential are greater than ever.The venue will be at the University of Vienna. The goal of the Institute Vienna Circle to further interdisciplinary communication can be met particularly well in such a conference because Ramsey did pioneering work in several fields, practitioners of which rarely know of his important work in other fields: philosophy of logic and theory of language, foundations of mathematics, mathematics, probability theory, methodology of science, philosophy of psychology, and economics. Lectures will be held on most of these fields. Distinguished speakers have been won to speak on language and probability. There will be a special focus on the one topic which was of strongest mutual concern to Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, namely the question of foundations of mathematics, in particular the status of logicism (the view that mathematics is derivable from logic, where logic is assumed to include a higher-order theory of relations). Although the major scientific connection linking Ramsey with Austria is his work on logic, to which the Vienna Circle dedicated several meetings, certainly the connection which is of greater general interest concerns Ramsey's visits and discussions with Wittgenstein. Ramsey was the only important thinker to actually visit Wittgenstein during his school-teaching career in Puchberg and Ottertal in the 1920s, in Lower Austria; and later, Ramsey was instrumental in getting Wittgenstein positions at Cambridge. The roster of speakers is international, and includes some of the most prominent in their field.
Conference Language: English Topics
- relation to psychology - knowledge and truth - actions and belief - decision and probability - relations between number theory and logic - semantic vs. set theoretical paradoxes - Ramsey, Russel, Carnap and Gödel - Ramsey and Wittgenstein - Ramsey and Schlick - new manuscripts by Ramsey
Because of the shocking and unexpected death of our original principal speaker, Donald Davidson, the topic of the Vienna Circle Lecture will be announced later. Program Committee:
Ramsey Centenary Conference, Newnham College Cambridge, 30 June - 2 July 2003 Frank P. Ramsey. 1903-1930. Croyance, probabilité et vérité, Université Paris IV Sorbonne, 24-25 octobre 2003 |
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