2013
2012
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Research presentation at "McGill Cognitive Science Research Day".
14 November 2012.
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
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Axioms in mathematical practice
27 October 2012.
13th Annual
Midwest Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop, University of Notre
Dame, South Bend, IN.
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Two metaphors for mathematics
28 July 2012.
Workshop "Cultures in mathematics",
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto,
Toronto, ON.
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The early development of Dedekind's notion of mapping
21 June 2012.
Symposium "Dedekind, Mathematical Methodology and the Notion of Function".
9th Congress of the
International Society for the History
of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS),
Halifax, NS.
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From Pasch to Hilbert: Metaphors for the foundations of mathematics
2 June 2012.
Bucharest Colloqium on "Philosophy of Mathematics Today",
Bucharest, Romania.
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Metaphors for the foundations of mathematics
23 March 2012. Workshop "Mathematics beyond theorems",
Göttingen, Germany.
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Keynote speaker at "National Integrative Research Conference".
9 March 2012.
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
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Klein and Pasch on intuition and proofs
26 January 2012. Oberseminar "Geschichte der Mathematik",
Wuppertal, Germany.
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Pasch's philosophy of mathematics
25 January 2012.
IZWT-Kolloquium, Wuppertal, Germany.
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Analyzing analogies in mathematical domains
18 January 2012.
Seminar
"L'analogie et les techniques. Approches pluridisciplinaires: Analogie et Mathématiques",
Paris Diderot,
Paris, France.
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On making mathematical inferences explicit: Pasch's foray into logic
11 January 2012.
Seminar on "Explicit versus tacit knowledge in mathematics", Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany.
2011
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Learning and computing with Roman numerals
2 December 2011.
Workshop on Mathematics as Practice and Culture,
Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald, Germany.
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Learning and computing with Roman numerals
2 November 2011.
Learning Sciences Research Seminar.
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology.
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
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Metaphors for the foundations of mathematics
3 August 2011.
The Classical Model of Science II, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Symbolic reasoning and historical aspects of mathematical practice
21 July 2011.
Symposium "Philosophy of Mathematical Practice", 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of
Science, Nancy, France.
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Pasch's views on logic
17 July 2011.
Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of
Mathematics (CSHPM) and the British Society for the History of
Mathematics (BSHM),
Dublin, Ireland.
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Methodological reflections on typologies for numeral systems
19 February 2011. 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci),
Charleston, SC. (Presenter: Theodore Widom)
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Short presentation at Arts Undergraduate Research Event.
2 February 2011.
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
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Mathematical concepts and investigative practice
8 January 2011. Workshop "Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice",
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
2010
- Some historical considerations on mathematical reasoning: Beyond the 'foundational/maverick divide'
9 December 2010.
First international meeting of the
Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice,
Brussels, Belgium.
- Analyzing mathematical analogies
19 October 2010.
Learning Sciences Research Seminar.
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology.
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
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Research presentation at "McGill Cognitive Science Research Day".
22 September 2010.
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
- Towards a (failed) renewal of logic
22 June 2010.
Invited talk at PratiScienS conference "From practice to results in
logic and mathematics",
Nancy, France.
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Contrasting proofs in algebra: Substitution groups vs. abstract groups
16 June 2010.
Seminar
"Contrasting proofs",
Paris, France.
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Methodological reflections on typologies for numeral systems
31 May 2010.
Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of
Mathematics (CSHPM),
Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
(Presenter: Theodore Widom)
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The many sides of zero in Babylonian context
31 May 2010.
Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of
Mathematics (CSHPM),
Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
(Presenter: Katherine Skosnik)
- Pasch and Klein on intuition and proofs
19 May 2010.
Séminaire
"Epistemologie et histoire des idees
mathematiques", IREM,
Paris Diderot,
Paris, France.
- Loss of vision: How mathematics turned blind while it learned to see more clearly
23 April 2010. PhiMSAMP-6 Workshop,
Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- On the creative role of axioms
12 April 2010.
Philosophy of Science Conference,
Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Where axioms come from
29 March 2010.
Symposium on
Mathematical Cognition,
Leicester, UK.
- Pasch's ideal of proof
24 March 2010.
8th
"Ideals of Proof" Fellows' Seminar,
Paris, France.
- Pasch's empiricist foundations of mathematics
22 March 2010.
Séminaire de philosophie des mathématiques — Paris Diderot,
Paris, France.
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Pasch and Klein on intuition and proofs
15 January 2010.
Invited session on
History of Mathematics,
Annual AMS-MAA Meetings.
San Francisco, CA.
2009
- Mathematical analogies from a cognitive science perspective
4 December 2009.
PhD Seminar on Learning Sciences.
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology.
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
- Moritz Pasch's philosophy of mathematics
21 October 2009.
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology colloquium, University of Toronto,
Toronto, ON.
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Research presentation at "Better Know McGill Cognitive Science".
18 September 2009.
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
- Tieferlegung der Fundamente and other metaphors in the early development of modern mathematics
3 September 2009.
Conference on
"Die Berliner Gruppe",
Paderborn, Germany.
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Learning the structure of abstract groups (with Thomas Shultz).
1 August 2009.
Poster presentation,
31th Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Two streams in the philosophy of mathematics - Two sides of an old coin:
The debate between Pasch and Klein on the role of mathematical intuition.
1 July 2009.
"Two streams in the philosophy of mathematics" conference,
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.
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New approaches to the creation of mathematical concepts in the
nineteenth century
22 May 2009. Workshop "Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice",
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
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On the history of programming languages
7 April 2009.
SoCS lecture.
School of Computer Science,
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
- On the creative role of axiomatics
23 March 2009.
Department of Philosophy Colloquium. McGill University, Montreal, QC.
2008
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Moritz Pasch's philosophy of mathematics
27 December 2008.
Invited talk at session on "Historical Ideals of Rigor in Mathematics",
Winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (with APA),
Philadelphia, PA.
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Empirico-deductivism: Moritz Pasch's philosophy of mathematics
8 December 2008. Invited talk at the History and Philosophy of
Mathematics Session, Canadian Mathematical Society, Winter 2008 Meeting,
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.
- Modeling ancient and modern
arithmetic practices: Addition and multiplication with Arabic and
Roman numerals (with Hansjörg Neth)
26 July 2008.
Poster presentation,
30th Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society,
Washington, DC.
- Moritz Pasch: A nineteenth century logical
empiricist
19 June 2008.
Seventh Congress of the
International Society for the History
of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS),
Vancouver, BC.
- An empiricist approach to modern mathematics:
Moritz Pasch on projective geometry
17 May 2008.
Is Mathematics Special?
(PhiMSAMP-3),
Vienna, Austria.
- Moritz Pasch: A nineteenth century logical empiricist
28 March 2008. Annual meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic,
Irvine, CA.
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Computers and minds
20 March 2008.
Guest lecture. Comp 199:
Excursions in Computer Science (Joelle Pineau),
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
2007
- Two ways of analogy: Extending the study of
analogies to mathematical domains
19 October 2007. PhiMSAMP-2 Workshop,
Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- On the creative role of axiomatics in the discovery of lattices
27 July 2007.
Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of
Mathematics (CSHPM) and the British Society for the History of
Mathematics (BSHM),
Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
- From domains of being to systems of axioms, and
vice versa: On the role of axiomatics in the discovery of lattices
27 March 2007. Perspectives on Mathematical Practices,
Brussels, Belgium.
- From domains of being to systems of axioms, and
vice versa
12 January 2007.
The Classical Model of Science,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2006
- On the importance of asking the right research
questions: Could Jordan have proved the
Jordan-Hölder Theorem?
11 December 2006. Canadian Mathematical Society, Winter 2006 Meeting, History of Mathematics Session,
Toronto, ON.
- On the importance of asking the right research
questions: Could Jordan have proved the
Jordan-Hölder Theorem?
14 September 2006. GAP.6 Workshop "Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics",
Berlin, Germany.
- Clark L. Hull's methodology of scientific discovery:
Psychology, logical positivism, practice, proofs, and
refutations
18 June 2006.
Sixth Congress of the
International Society for the History
of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS),
Paris, France.
- From "psychic machines" to neural networks:
Learning from models and computer simulations in psychology
13 June 2006.
Models and Simulations,
Paris, France.
- On the importance of asking the right research
questions: Could Jordan have proved the
Jordan-Hölder Theorem?
29 May 2006.
Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of
Mathematics (CSHPM),
York University, Toronto, ON.
2005
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Axiomatics and discovery
17 December 2005.
Recherches
Québecoises en Logique, Université
du Québec au Montréal, Montreal, QC.
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On some connections between philosophy of mathematics
and cognitive science
17 November 2005.
Guest lecture. Psyc 532 (740):
Cognitive Science (Tom Shultz),
McGill University, Montreal, QC.
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Towards a more comprehensive understanding of analogies
27 August 2005.
Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Understanding,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2004
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Axiomatics and discovery
25 June 2004.
Fifth Congress of the
International Society for the History
of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS),
San Francisco, CA.
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Theoretical aspects of theory development
1 June 2004.
Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of
Science (CSHPS),
Winnipeg, MB.
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Analogies in mathematical domains
31 May 2004.
Meeting of the
Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA),
Winnipeg, MB.
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Commentary to: Elaine Landry, "Category theory as framework for an
in re interpretation of mathematical structuralism"
31 May 2004.
Meeting of the
Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA),
Winnipeg, MB.
2003
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Does abstract equal good?
23 November 2003.
Fourth Annual
Midwest Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop, University of Notre
Dame, South Bend, IN.
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Aspects of theory construction: Clark Hull's philosophy of
science (with Uljana Feest)
29 May 2003. Meeting of the
Canadian
Society for History and Philosophy of Science
(CSHPS),
Halifax, NS.
Paper was selected runner-up to the Hadden Prize for best student paper.
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Commentary to: James Tabery, "Activities and interactions in
the concept of a mechanism"
15 March 2003.
Fifth Annual Pittsburgh Graduate Philosophy
Conference, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA.
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The axiomatic method in the light of 20th century
philosophy
17 February 2003.
Foundations of
the Formal Sciences IV, Bonn, Germany.
2002
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The axiomatic method as engine for driving discovery in mathematics
13 November 2002.
Thesis Prospectus defense.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
2001
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Richard Dedekind: Von der genetischen zur axiomatischen Methode
18 June 2001.
Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Konstanz, Germany.
2000
- Dedekind: Axiomatics and abstraction
9 December 2000.
First Annual Midwest
Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Towards axiomatic foundations of mathematics: the
evolution of Dedekind's treatment of numbers
14 October 2000.
2000 Midwest Conference on the History of Mathematics.
Northern Kentucky University. Florence, KY.
1999
- Richard Dedekind: Axiomatische Grundlagen der Mathematik
21 December 1999.
Mittagsseminar der AG 1 und 14.
Fachbereich Mathematik, TU Darmstadt, Germany.
- Richard Dedekind: Axiomatic foundations of mathematics
22 November 1999.
Master's Thesis defense.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Dedekind's real numbers
6 March 1999.
Rocky Mountain Student Philosophy Conference.
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
1998
- Intuitionism - the philosophy of L.E.J. Brouwer
3 October 1998.
1998 Midwest Conference on the History of Mathematics.
Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
- The philosophy of L.E.J. Brouwer
21 April 1998.
PRL Seminar.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
- Minds, machines, and Turing
24 January 1998.
Graduate Student Philosophy Conference '98.
Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
1997
- The philosophy of L.E.J. Brouwer
11 December 1997.
Pure and Applied Logic Colloquium.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Intuitionismus und Informatik
31 January 1997.
AG Domains.
Fachbereich Mathematik, TH Darmstadt.
1996
- Intuitionismus und Informatik
16 December 1996.
AIDA Forum.
Institut für Intellektik, TH Darmstadt.
- Positionen zu den Grundlagen der Mathematik
9 December 1996.
Autonomes StudentInnen Seminar `No Silver Bullet', TH Darmstadt.
- Logic Programming
11 June 1996.
Autonomes StudentInnen Seminar `No Silver Bullet', TH Darmstadt.
1995
- Russell's Typentheorie
Fall 1995.
Informatik Seminar `Geschichte der Logik', TH Darmstadt.
1994
- Die lokale Struktur von Fraktalen
Spring 1994.
Informatik Seminar `Fraktale', TH Darmstadt.
1993
- GPS - Der General Problem Solver
Fall 1993.
Informatik Seminar `Automatisches Planen', TH Darmstadt.