Mathematics, Philosophy,
and Literature
Thursday, April 11, 4:00 pm
Sever Hall 202, 25 Harvard Yard
Friday, April 12, 9:00 am
Plimpton Seminar Room, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street
Free and open to the public.
This workshop considers the importance of "mathematical thinking" for the concepts of linguistic and literary representation, history, and the political. In what way might mathematics be relevant
to the efficacy of our statements and judgments? What light can it shed on our capacity to authorize our utterances? What is its bearing on our understanding of the fundamental structure of the world, and the place of human language and action in it? Since
space is limited, free registration for this event is strongly encouraged.
PARTICIPANTS
Stephanie Dick, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Peter Galison, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
John Hamilton, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Peter Fenves, Program in Comparative Literary Studies and Department of German Literature and Critical Thought, Northwestern University
Gregory Moynahan, Department of History, Bard College
Julia Ng, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Markus Hardtmann, Harper and Schmidt Society of Fellows, University of Chicago
Arkady Plotnitsky, Department of English, Purdue University
Made possible by the generous support of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Seminar on France and the World, the Department of the History of Science,
and the Department of Philosophy. Co-sponsored with the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History and the Philosophy, Poetry and Religion Seminar. |
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