ESPM-FPMW Conference 2025
Paris, 15-17 October 2025
Organizers: Marianna Antonutti Marfori, Øystein Linnebo, Alberto Naibo, Vincenzo De Risi
Scientific Committee: Andrew Arana, Silvia De Toffoli, Mirna Dzamonja, Emmylou Haffner,
Brice Halimi, Mary Leng, Øystein Linnebo, Jean-Pierre Marquis, Carlo Nicolai,
Alexander Paseau, Frédéric Patras, Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz
Call for Papers | Speakers | Venue | Schedule | Program and Abstracts
Call for Papers
The joint 2nd Conference of the European Society for the Philosophy of Mathematics & Seventeenth French Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop will take in Paris from the 15th to the 17th of October 2025.
We welcome submissions for up to five contributed talks in all areas of the philosophy of mathematics. Submissions by researchers from early career scholars and underrepresented groups in the philosophy of mathematics are strongly encouraged. In order to be considered, submissions should be sent to fpmw-espm2025@sciencesconf.org copying in Brice Halimi brice.halimi@u-paris.fr in an email entitled “FPMW-ESPM2025” and containing an abstract between 10,000 and 15,000 characters, prepared for anonymous review, in PDF format.
Registration is mandatory to access the event venues. To register, please click here.
The conference is mainly supported by the the Réseau Thématique “Philosophy of Mathematics”, the European Society for the Philosophy of Mathematics, SPHere (CNRS, UMR 7219), the ERC Philiumm project (101020985), and the project Infinity and Intensionality (Norwegian Research Council).
Confirmed Speakers
Timothy Gowers (Collège de France & University of Cambridge)
Elaine Landry
(UC Davis)
Georg Schiemer
(University of Vienna, LMU Munich)
David Rabouin
(CNRS, SPHere)
Andrea Sereni
(IUSS Pavia)
Program and Venue
Wednesday, October 15th
Université Paris Cité, Building “Sophie Germain”, Amphithéâtre Turing
Place Aurélie Nemours, 75013 Paris
9:00 Coffee
9:30-10:45 Elaine Landry (University of California Davis), Why the Meno Problem is a Good Mathematical Problem
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Michał Tomasz Godziszewski (University of Łódź), Nonabsoluteness of Satisfaction and Methods of Characterizing Mathematical Truth
12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:45 Marc Lange (Rutgers University), How to Resolve Wigner’s Mystery of the ”Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics’’ in Natural Science
15:45-16:15 Coffee
16:15-17:30 Timothy Gowers (Collège de France and University of Cambridge), What is a Motivated Proof?
17:45-18:45 Meeting of the European Society for the Philosophy of Mathematics
Thursday, October 16th
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon, Room 6
Place du Panthéon 12, 75005 Paris
9:00 Coffee
9:30-10:45 Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna), Hilbert’s Program and the Status of Ideal Elements
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Carolin Antos (University of Konstanz), Revolution Despite Continuity: Theory Change and Unification in Mathematics
12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:45 David Waszek (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), From Applications of Mathematics to Mathematical Notations: On Mathematics and Epistemic Accessibility
15:45-16:15 Coffee
16:15-17:30 David Rabouin (Laboratoire SPHère, CNRS, Paris), Leibnizian Abstractionism
17:45-18:45 Meeting of the Réseau Thématique “Philosophie des mathématiques”
Friday, October 17th
Université Paris Cité, Building “Olympe de Gouges”, Room 105
Place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris
8:30 Coffee
9:00-10:15 Andrea Sereni (IUSS Pavia), Abstraction as explication
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:45 Ludovica Conti (University of Vienna), Impredicativity and Schematic Generality
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-13:15 Silviu-Constantin Federovici (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania), Brouwer’s Project to “Root Mathematics in Life” and the Meaning of Experience in His Intuitionism
Contributed Speakers
Carolin Antos (University of Konstanz)
Ludovica Conti (University of Vienna)
Silviu-Constantin Federovici (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University)
Michał Tomasz Godziszewski (University of Lodz)
Marc Lange (Rutgers University)
David Waszek (École Normale Supérieure)
Registration
Registration is mandatory to access the event venues. To register, please click here.
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