Campus Talks

Both Shelley and I were invited to give talks to the Kyoto University Philosophy Department. My talk was at the end of May, and Shelley's was last Thursday.

Shelley's talk drew a sizable crowd, a mixture of philosophers and historians of science. She presented a paper about abstraction in mathematics, combining social history and philosophical perspectives. It was based on a paper that Shelley had originally given at a conference in Oxford that she and I both participated in back in 2008, and in its current incarnation it was very well received:

To Shelley's right is Associate Professor of Philosophy Jun Otsuka, who is the colleague that I have been mainly working with during my time in Japan.