Recent Events
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Fri May 9, 2025 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Johan van Benthem (Stanford University) Mathematical Logic Meets Philosophy: Tracing the role of Beth Definability and Craig Interpolation up to today |
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Mon May 5, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Wes Holliday Work in Progress Talk |
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Sat May 3, 2025–Sun May 4, 2025 Howison Library 9 AM–3 PM |
Conference Berkeley-London Conference |
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Fri May 2, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Omer Ben-Neria (UCLA) On the strength of ultrafilters on ordinals above choiceless large cardinals |
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Fri Apr 25, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Michelle Schwarze (Political Theory, Wisconsin) After Liberal Utopia: Judith Shklar on Injustice and Political Reform |
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Fri Apr 25, 2025–Sat Apr 26, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 8:30 AM–6 PM |
Conference Between Philosophy and History: A Symposium in Honor of Hans Sluga |
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Thu Apr 24, 2025 Toll Room, Alumni House 4:10–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Annabel Brett (Cambridge University) The Times of Possibility Seminar and Discussion with Commentators |
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Wed Apr 23, 2025 Toll Room, Alumni House 4:10–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Annabel Brett (Cambridge University) The Times of Possibility Lecture II |
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Tue Apr 22, 2025 Toll Room, Alumni House 4:10–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Annabel Brett (Cambridge University) The Times of Possibility Lecture I |
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Mon Apr 21, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Verónica Gómez Sánchez Work in Progress Talk |
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Fri Apr 18, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Samuel Moyn (Law & History, Yale) From One Crisis of Liberalism to Another |
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Thu Apr 17, 2025 Room 60, Evans Hall 4–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University) Dedekind’s Theory of Ideals and Modern Algebraic Abstraction |
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Wed Apr 16, 2025 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall 4–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University) Dirichlet’s Theorem on Primes in an Arithmetic Progression and the Treatment of Functions as Objects |
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Mon Apr 14, 2025 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall 4–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University) Euclid’s Elements and Diagrammatic Reasoning in Geometry |
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Fri Apr 11, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Francesca Zaffora Blando (CMU) |
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Fri Apr 11, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Discussion |
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Fri Apr 11, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sophie Smith (Political Theory, Oxford) Should (Political) Philosophers Care about History? |
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Thu Apr 10, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Lecture III: Genealogy as Critique |
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Tue Apr 8, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Lecture II: Genealogy and the Epistemic Question |
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Mon Apr 7, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Lecture I: Genealogy and the Ancients |
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Sat Apr 5, 2025 Heyns Room, Faculty Club 1–3 PM |
Sather Lecture Emily Gowers (Classics, Cambridge) Various Trees |
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Fri Apr 4, 2025 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Ronnie Chen (University of Michigan) |
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Fri Apr 4, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Linda Zerilli (Political Theory, Chicago) Toward a Critical Freedom-Centered Feminist Historiography |
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Thu Apr 3, 2025 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium J. Reid Miller (Haverford College) Sexual Endowments: Rethinking Inheritance and Belonging |
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Wed Apr 2, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Harvey Lederman (UT Austin) |
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Sat Mar 22, 2025 Heyns Room, Faculty Club 1 PM |
Sather Lecture Greg Woolf (ISAW) A Distant Tyrant: Emperor, Empire, Impotence |
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Fri Mar 21, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory James Orr (Religion, Cambridge) TBA |
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Thu Mar 20, 2025 Howison 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Daniel Greco (Yale) Knowledge from Fiction? |
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Tue Mar 18, 2025 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Josefine Klingspor, John Carrierio, Sam Newlands, Russ Leo Why read Spinoza’s Ethics? (Panel Discussion) |
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Sat Mar 15, 2025 Heyns Room, Faculty Club 1–3 PM |
Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Classics, Stanford) Cleverness Revisited: Why wicked and excellent people are called deinoi (Aristotle NE 1144a21-22) |
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Sat Mar 15, 2025–Sun Mar 16, 2025 |
Conference Berkeley Metaphysics Workshop |
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Fri Mar 14, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Eddy Keming Chen (UC San Diego) Exchangeability and Algorithmic Randomness: A New Proof of the Principal Principle |
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Fri Mar 14, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Patrick Deneen (Political Theory, Notre Dame) Cold War Right Liberalism: The Case of Leo Strauss and the Straussians |
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Thu Mar 13, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Shamik Dasgupta Work in Progress Talk |
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Tue Mar 11, 2025 Stroud Room (Phil Hall 3rd floor) 2–3:30 PM |
Meaning Sciences Club Alexander Dinges (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) On Norms of Assertion and Common Ground |
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Fri Mar 7, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Steven Hahn (History, NYU) Illiberal America and the Invention of the Liberal Tradition |
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Thu Mar 6, 2025 Room 12, Law Building 4–6 PM |
Kadish Lecture David Enoch (Oxford & Hebrew University of Jerusalem) A (Somewhat) Unified Theory of Flawed Consent |
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Fri Feb 28, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Keidrick Roy (Political Theory, Harvard) Black Patriot Liberalism |
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Thu Feb 27, 2025 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth) Yea to Truth (Or: The Functions of Truth Talk) |
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Sat Feb 22, 2025 Heyns Room, Faculty Club 1–3 PM |
Sather Lecture Victoria Wohl (Classics, University of Toronto) Intelligent Air |
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Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Simon Huttegger (UC Irvine) |
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Fri Feb 21, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Ricarda Hammer (Sociology, UC Berkeley) Atlantic Reconstruction |
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Gaia Belardinelli (Stanford) |
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Anna Stilz (Political Theory, UC Berkeley) Lenin’s Theory of Self-Determination |
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Hanoch Dagan (Law, UC Berkeley) Freedom of Contract |
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Thu Feb 6, 2025 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Una Stojnić (Princeton) Inflammatory Language |
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 370 Dwinelle Hall 5–7 PM |
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Agnes Callard (University of Chicago) Is There Any Such Thing As Socratic Irony? |
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 1015 Evans Hall (Note the change!) 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Alexi Block Gorman (Ohio State University) Expansions of ℝ and ℕ by k-automatic sets: Choose-your-own-adventure! |
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Helena Rosenblatt (History, CUNY) Liberal Political Economy on the Eve of the French Revolution: Jacques and Suzanne Necker, Critics of Laissez-Faire |
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Thu Jan 30, 2025 Maud Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall) 5–7 PM |
Townsend Center for the Humanities Agnes Callard (University of Chicago) The Case For A Philosophical Life |
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Stephen Macedo (Political Theory, Princeton) In Covid’s Wake: How We Failed Liberalism |
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Mon Dec 9, 2024 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk John Campbell Work In Progress Talk |
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Fri Dec 6, 2024 732 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Isaac Goldbring (UC Irvine) On the undecidability of the QWEP for C*-algebras |
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Thu Dec 5, 2024 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Pia Schneider How Sensibility’s Form Matters |
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Mon Nov 25, 2024 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Scott Casleton Moderation in Moderation: Free Speech, Democracy, and Social Media |
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Fri Nov 22, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Deanna Kuhn (Psychology, Columbia) What Can Discourse Do? |
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Thu Nov 21, 2024 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Edward Schwartz Beyond Language: Slurs and Social Norms |
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Mon Nov 18, 2024 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Elek Lane Deadnaming, Taboo, and Linguistic Authority |
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Mon Nov 18, 2024 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Ezra Rubenstein Work In Progress Talk: Conjunction as Identity |
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Fri Nov 15, 2024 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Eyal Kaplan (UC Berkeley) The potentialist principle |
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Fri Nov 15, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Daniel Viehoff (Philosophy, UC Berkeley) Authority and Control |
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Thu Nov 14, 2024 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Evan Thompson (University of British Columbia) When Death Comes |
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Fri Nov 8, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Lara Buchak (Philosophy, Princeton) |
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Thu Nov 7, 2024 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Carolyn Dicey Jennings (University of California, Merced) Work In Progress Talk: Collective Attention |
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Fri Nov 1, 2024 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Felix Weilacher (UC Berkeley) Shannon’s Theorem and the Unbalanced Matching Problem in the Measurable Context |
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Fri Nov 1, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Genevieve Lakier (Law, Chicago) |
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Fri Oct 25, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jennifer Lackey (Philosophy, Northwester) Stories That Wrong and Stories That Repair |
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Thu Oct 24, 2024 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside) Taking Love Public: On James Baldwin and Love’s Political Possibilities |
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Wed Oct 23, 2024 Alumni House, Toll Room 4:10 PM |
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia) The Search for Paradise |
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Fri Oct 18, 2024 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Andrew Bacon (USC) |
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Fri Oct 18, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory David Enoch (Philosophy of Law, Oxford) |
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Fri Oct 11, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Mike Martin (Philosophy, Berkeley) Hume, sentiments, and no-fault disagreement |
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Fri Oct 11, 2024–Sun Oct 13, 2024 UC Berkeley Campus |
Conference Computability and Mathematical Definability |
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Thu Oct 10, 2024 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor (UNC Chapel Hill) Freedom for Humans |
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Thu Oct 10, 2024 Stroud Room 2–3:30 PM |
Meaning Sciences Club Seth Yalcin Counterepistemic Knowledge |
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Wed Oct 9, 2024 Alumni House, Toll Room 4–6 PM |
Howison Lectures in Philosophy Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor (UNC Chapel Hill) Character and Agency |
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Wed Oct 9, 2024 Evans Hall 60 3–5 PM |
Neyman Seminar Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech) Severity as a Basic Concept in Philosophy of Statistics |
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Fri Oct 4, 2024 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Elliot Glazer (Epoch AI) Versatility of random reals |
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Fri Oct 4, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Leif Nelson (Berkeley Haas) |
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Fri Sep 27, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory John MacFarlane (Philosophy, Berkeley) Disagreement and Meaning |
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Wed Sep 25, 2024 234 Philosophy Hall 6–7:30 PM |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Michael Mendler and Luke Burke (Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg) The Došen Square under construction: A tale of four modalities |
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Fri Sep 20, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Theodore Slaman (Berkeley Math) Extending Borel’s Conjecture from Measure to Dimension |
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Fri Sep 20, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Peter Galison (History of Science, Harvard) Governing Epistemology: Knowledge in Large-Scale Experiments |
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Fri Sep 13, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Forte Shinko (Berkeley Math) Hyperfiniteness for graphs of slow intermediate growth |
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Fri Sep 13, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Lilliana Mason (Political Science, Johns Hopkins) Pluralism Polarization: The Deepest Partisan Divide is Over Pluralistic Democracy |
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Fri Sep 6, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Edward Hall (Philosophy, Harvard) Collaborative Disagreement |
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Fri Aug 30, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Peter Koellner (Philosophy, Harvard) Disagreement in Mathematics: From the Small Finite to the Higher Infinite |