Olá a todos. Não sei se vocês sabem, mas esta Templeton Foudation tem objetivos religiosos, mais especificamente de tentar harmonizar ciência e cristianismo.
Não acho que eles estejam financiando nenhum projeto na área de biologia evolutiva, a não ser que seja para desprovar a teoria da evolução. []s 2011/9/4 Joao Marcos <[email protected]>: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Peter Koellner <[email protected]> > > Dear All, > > I would like to inform you of a new exiting project that it > taking place at Harvard this academic year -- the "Exploring the > Frontiers of Incompleteness" project, made possible by the > generous support of the John Templeton Foundation. The aim is to > bring together some of the most prominent thinkers who have > struggled with the following questions: > > 1. Do the questions that are independent of the standard > axioms admit of determinate answers? > > 2. If so then what are those answers and how might we go > about determining them? > > These are very difficult questions and there are many prominent > philosophers and mathematicians who have given them a great deal > of thought. There is a broad spectrum of views. For example, at > one end there are people like Solomon Feferman who think that > there are "objective facts of the matter" about questions > pertaining to the natural numbers but think that most of the > questions of set theory (most notably, the Continuum > Hypothesis (CH)) are "indeterminate" since the underlying notions > of set theory are "inherently vague". At the other end of the > spectrum there are people like Hugh Woodin who have provided > serious arguments (based on a wealth of mathematical results) for > thinking that questions like CH are determinate and who have > advanced major programs (again based on a wealth of mathematical > results) for determining those answers. There are many views in > between and there are views which are entirely orthogonal to this > ordering. The main purpose of the two-part series is to > investigate these various positions, compare their strengths and > weaknesses, and make steps forward in determining the answers to > the two guiding questions. We shall do this by actually engaging > with the major figures in this foundational debate. Through > generous external support we have managed to secure the funding > necessary to make this possible. Over the next two semesters > there will be 12 workshops. Each workshop will involve a > presentation by one of the major figures in the debate. The > speakers are: > > Fall Semester > > * Solomon Feferman > * Matt Foreman > * Penelope Maddy > * Charles Parsons > * William Tait > * Hugh Woodin > > Spring Semester > > * James Cummings > * Tony Martin > * Menachem Magidor > * John Steel > * Stevo Todorcevic > * Philip Welch > > The speaker presentations will occur (roughly) every two weeks > and during the intervening weeks there will be lectures by Peter > Koellner on the background material required for the upcoming > talk. In addition, the paper of the presentation will be made > available in advance. Moreover, all 12 speakers will be involved > throughout the process ?- they too will receive the papers in > advance and will be given an opportunity to comment on it. At > the end of the workshop series there will be a > master-workshop (something like a conference but more > interactive) involving all workshop-speakers and all > participants. Finally, along the way there will be opportunity > for world-wide discussion on an Internet portal. > > For further details are available here: Go to > > http://logic.harvard.edu/# > > and then click on ``EFI Project'' to navigate through the > Overview, Schedule, and Materials and Discussion section. > > We hope that you can all participate. > > Best, > Peter Koellner > _______________________________________________ > Logica-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l > -- Marcelo Finger Departamento de Ciencia da Computacao Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica Universidade de Sao Paulo Rua do Matao, 1010 05508-090 Sao Paulo, SP Brazil Tel: +55 11 3091-9688, 3091-6135, 3091-6134 (fax) http://www.ime.usp.br/~mfinger _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
