Charles Parsons Intuition and Reason
International Conference on the Work of Charles Parsons Intuition and Reason
Wednesday, December 4 2013
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Charles Parsons Intuition and Reason HUSSERL to GODEL Dagfinn Follesdal, University of Oslo, Stanford University
Husserl, Godel and Parsons on Idealism and Realism
In light and in honor of Charles Parsons’ outstanding contributions and influence
in philosophy over more than 50 years - most recently the culmination of two collections
of essays following the publication his Mathematical Thought and its Objects, the
occasion of his 80th birthday provides an excellent and, indeed, a special opportunity
to review and reconsider the current state of the field of philosophy of mathematics,
as well as Parsons unique contributions to it.
These contributions have paved the way for a lively interaction between
historical, logical, and philosophical issues and methods that the field
of philosophy of mathematics now shows. The conference is designed to
reflect the richness of the resulting interconnections and will no doubt
carry these interactions further in the current development in the field of
philosophy of mathematics as well as of our understanding of the centrality
of mathematics and of the reflection on mathematics in philosophy.
The conference will be the 27th in the series of Annual International Workshop on
the History and Philosophy of Science, sponsored by the Edelstein Center
for the history and philosophy of science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the
Cohn Institute for the history and philosophy of science and ideas at
Tel-Aviv University and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. The conference
is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Department of Philosophy, with additional
support by the Faculty of the Humanities at Tel-Aviv University and the Kant-Studies
Program of the Rothschild Humanities Fund
Charles Parsons Intuition and Reason | HUSSERL to GODEL | Dagfinn Follesdal
