Hartry Field Silver Professor, New York University Hartry Field is Silver Professor, and University Professor, at New York University, where he has taught since 1997. Before that he taught at Princeton, University of Southern California, and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is author of Science Without Numbers (1980; expanded edition 2016) and Saving Truth From Paradox, as well as numerous articles in the philosophy of mathematics and of logic, and in other areas of philosophy such as metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of language. Science Without Numbers defended the view that one can develop physics without assuming the existence of mathematical entities, but since the early 1990’s Field’s work in philosophy of mathematics has been focused less on the existence of mathematical entities and more on the objectivity of mathematics. Participant In: Mathematics and Other Realities Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » The question of what the world in which we live consists of is as old as mankind itself. In philosophical jargon, this is the question of the ontological basis of reality. With the growing success of physics and other sciences, the idea of one fundamental ontology, that of particles and fields, became dominant as a… read more »
Mathematics and Other Realities Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » The question of what the world in which we live consists of is as old as mankind itself. In philosophical jargon, this is the question of the ontological basis of reality. With the growing success of physics and other sciences, the idea of one fundamental ontology, that of particles and fields, became dominant as a… read more »