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Thursday 2 November 2017

My Next Minor Presentation: Informationist Philosophy of Mathematics at The Victorian Postgraduate Workshop

"I present an informationist alternative to Platonist, in re realist, and nominalist appraisals of the nature of mathematical entities and structures, and their explanatory power. Informational conceptions of the nature of mathematical entities are considered conceptually taxing due to problems with conceptions of information. I argue that, even given this difficulty, the causal informationist about mathematical entities can offer a story that is just as coherent as that given by the Aristotelian in re realist about mathematical entities, is more plausible than soft Platonism, and that debunks the Platonist petitio-principii-cum-strawman charge that intractable nominalism is Platonism's only viable alternative."

https://vppw.wordpress.com/keynote-speaker/