FotFS VII

FOUNDATIONS OF THE FORMAL SCIENCES VII

Bringing together Philosophy and Sociology of Science

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science

October 21-24, 2008

Proceedings Volume.

The proceedings volumes of FotFS conference are published in the series Studies in Logic of College Publications, London. All proceedings volumes are thoroughly refereed according to the standards of a high-level research or expository journal of the relevant field. The books can be ordered via amazon.co.uk for a very reasonable price (between £15 and £17).

The proceedings volume for this conference will be edited by Karen François, Benedikt Löwe, Thomas Müller, and Bart van Kerkhove and will appear in 2010 (probably second half) under the title Foundations of the Formal Sciences VII. All speakers at the conference were cordially invited to submit a paper version of their presentation to fotfs (at) math.uni-bonn.de. The submission deadline was 24 January 2009.

Accepted papers will be typeset in LaTeX and we shall ask authors to provide us with LaTeX files. For the refereeing process, we do not need the files in final layout and ask authors to send us the files in PDF format.

  • ACCEPTED PAPERS.
    • Matt Brown, Science as Socially Distributed Cognition: Bridging Philosophy and Sociology of Science (? pages)
    • Liesbeth De Mol, On the agency of computers within computer-assisted proofs (25 pages)
    • Albrecht Heeffer, On the curious historical coincidence of algebra and double-entry bookkeeping (18 pages)
    • Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, Demystification of early Latour (27 pages)
    • Renate Tobies, Career Paths in Mathematics: A Comparison between Women and Men (14 pages)
  • PAPERS UNDER REVIEW.
    • Sabine Ammon, Reconstruction versus Construction -- The Context Distinction and its Impact for Philosophy and Sociology of Science (15 pages)
    • Filip Buekens, Maarten Boudry, Unintended Institutional Facts? On the Status of Psychoanalytic Interpretations (18 pages)
    • Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt, Cognitive and cultural factors influence the spread of mathematical concepts: The case of zero (12-15 pages)
    • Christian Greiffenhagen, Wes Sharrock, Does mathematics have a front and a back? Imagery in philosophy and sociology of science (32 pages)
    • Herbert Kalthoff, Economic Calculation. Frameworks, Performance and Undoing (34 pages)
    • Brendan Larvor, Albert Lautman: Dialectics in Mathematics (17 pages)
    • Hauke Riesch, On the philosophical talk of scientists (20 pages)
    • Paul Ziche, The multiple discovery of modern logic: Problems in the demarcation of formal science (? pages)