Lena Zuchowski: Poincare's conventionalism
When: | We 11-11-2015 15:15 - 17:00 |
Where: | Faculty of Philosophy, room Omega |
Lecture organized by the Dept. of Theoretical Philosophy
Poincare's conventionalism: No advocacy of choice but a call for epistemic scepticism
I will present a novel interpretation of Poincare's geometry conventionalism, which differs from the current received view by denying the empirical underdeterminancy of geometry and therefore the ability of a single protagonist to choose freely between geometries. Instead, I will argue that...(continue reading...)