Lena Zuchowski: Poincare's conventionalism

Lecture organized by the Dept. of Theoretical Philosophy

Poincare's conventionalism: No advocacy of choice but a call for epistemic scepticism

I will present a novel interpretation of Poincare's geometry conventionalism, which differs from the current received view by denying the empirical underdeterminancy of geometry and therefore the ability of a single protagonist to choose freely between geometries. Instead, I will argue that...(continue reading...)