Michael Detlefsen's Curriculum Vitae (PDF) - University of Notre Dame

Stockholm), “Conflicting intuitions about deductive reasoning”; Prof. Rafael Nunez (Cognitive Science, U
of California-San Diego & Wissenschafts Kolleg, Berlin), “Towards the cognitive foundations of proof”; Prof.
Wilfried Sieg (Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon U), “Uncovering aspects of the mathematical mind”
Planner and director of 3rd IP Fellows Seminar, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Feb 27, 2009. Speakers:
Dr. Sebastien Maronne (U of Paris 7 & U of Clermont-Ferrand), “Ideal elements and projective geometry
in early modern mathematics”; Dr. Oliver Schlaudt (Postdoctoral fellow, U of Nancy 2), “Abstraction and
Ideation. A constructivist approach to the nature of mathematical concepts”; Dr. Paul McCallion (U of
Stirling, post-doctoral fellow with the IP project), “Ideal numbers vs ideal numerical properties”; Dr. John
Mumma (Carnegie Mellon U, post-doctoral fellow with the IP project), “Contentful reasoning and rigor in
elementary geometry”
Planner and director of 2nd IP Fellows Seminar, January 22, 2009, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Speakers:
Mattia Petrolo (U of Rome, U of Paris 1, IP Doctoral Fellow), “Ideal proofs and logical constructivity:
From intuitionistic to classical logic”; Dr. Renaud Chorlay (U of Paris 7, U of Paris 1, IP Post-doctoral
Fellow), “Ways out of the Grey”; Dr. Paola Cantù (U of Milan; U of Clermont-Ferrand, IP Post-doctoral
Fellow), “Ideal numbers and magnitudes: a matter of degree?”; Dr. Andrei Rodin (U of Paris 7, ENS,
IP Post-doctoral Fellow), “How Mathematical Concepts Get Their Bodies: The example of Forcing”; Prof.
Agustin Rayo (Philosophy, MIT), “Towards a Trivialist Account of Mathematics”
Planner and director of IP Workshop on Geometrical Thinking, Dec 15–16, 2008, U of Nancy 2. Prof. Jeremy
Gray (Mathematics, Open University, London), “Geometrical Thinking: the case of minimal surfaces”; Prof
Michael Hallett (Philosophy, McGill U), “Geometry and Number”; Prof. Douglas Jesseph (Philosophy, U of
South Florida), “‘The Very Soul of Mathematics’: Barrow’s Mathematical Lectures and the theory of Ratios
in the Seventeenth Century”; Prof. Mary Domski (Philosophy, U of New Mexico), “Kant on the Imagination
and Geometrical Certainty”; Prof. Victor Pambuccian (Mathematics & Humanities, Arizona State U),
“Elementary geometries, groups, and fields: Similarities and differences”; Prof. Henk Bos (Mathematics,
U of Utrecht; Mathematics, U of Aarhus), “The early modern tradition of geometrical problem solving as
context for new ideas about the nature of geometry”
Planner and director of 1st IP Fellows Seminar, Oct 29, 2008, U of Nancy 2. Speakers: Dr. Paul McCallion
(U of Stirling, IP Post-doctoral Fellow), “Ideality and the integers”; Dr. Fabien Schang (U of Nancy 2, IP
Post-doctoral Fellow), “An abstract object in logic: logical value, and its philosophical import”; Dr. John
Mumma (Carnegie-Mellon U, IP Post-doctoral Fellow), “The real and the ideal in complex projective space”
Planner and director of 9th annual Midwest PhilMath Workshop, Nov 8–9, 2008, University of Notre Dame
Planner and director of IP Workshop on Proof, Justification and Learning, U of Nancy 2, May 26–27, 2008.
Speakers: Prof. Sergei Artemov (Mathematics and Computer Science, CUNY), “Justification logic”; Prof.
Denis Bonnay (U of Paris 1 & U of Paris 10), “How formal is a formal proof?”; Prof. Kevin Kelly (Philosophy,
Carnegie Mellon), “Why Relations of Ideas are Matters of Fact: A Unified Theory of Theoretical Unification
in Formal and Empirical Reasoning”; Prof. Rohit Parikh (Computer Science, CUNY), “Epistemology, pure
and applied”; Prof. Manuel Rebuschi (U of Nancy 2) & Dr. Tero Tulenheimo (U of Helsinki), “IF logic and
the epistemology of mathematical objects”
Planner and director of IP Workshop, Visual Reasoning in Mathematics and the A Priori, U of Nancy 2, May
5–6, 2008. Speakers: Prof. Marcus Giaquinto (Philosophy, U College London), “Synthetic a priori knowledge
in geometry: recovery of a Kantian Insight”; Dr. Valeria Giardino (U of Rome & Institut Jean Nicod,
Paris), “Diagrammatic reasoning in mathematics: cognitive issues”; Dr. John Mumma (Carnegie Mellon U,
IP Post-doctoral Fellow), “Does rigor require that everything be laid down in advance? Diagrammatic vs.
axiomatic proof in elementary geometry”; Prof. Lisa Shabel (Philosophy, Ohio State U), “Representation
and Reasoning: Kant on Symbols, Diagrams and Mathematical Demonstration”
Planner and director of 8th annual Midwest PhilMath Workshop, Oct 27–28, 2007, University of Notre Dame
Planner and director of 7th annual Midwest PhilMath Workshop, Nov 11–12, 2006, University of Notre Dame
Planner and director of 6th annual Midwest PhilMath Workshop, Oct 8–9, 2005, University of Notre Dame
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