For our final meeting on structuralism, we cover the modal set-theoretic structuralism from Parsons and Linnebø. This rounds out the book we have been following and also our time with structuralism (for now).
For our next meeting on structuralism, we will be covering the two views championed by the authors of the textboock: Shapiro’s ante rem, or Sui Generis, structuralism and Hellman’s Modal Structuralism.
Main Readings
Chapter 5 and 6 in Hellman, G., & Shapiro, S. (2018). Mathematical Structuralism (Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108582933
For this special Christmas meeting, Rodrigo will be introducing Kurt Gödel’s argument about the existence of God, a classic medieval argument formalized in modal logic.
No reading preparation is required.
During the session, Rodrigo will present the argument, followed by a discussion.
Slides used during the presentation are available here. See also a handout with the proof.