Anubav Vasudevan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, where he works in formal epistemology and the history of logic, though he has published in a number of other areas. Anubav and Robinson talk about his time at Columbia University studying with the mathematician, probability theorist, and philosopher Haim Gaifman before discussing some of Anubav’s thoughts on mathematics, physics, logic, and how they relate to philosophy. In the second half of the conversation they move on to some of Anubav’s work in the history of logic, touching on Leibniz and the Peripatetic school.
Background on Classical Logic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-classical/
OUTLINE:
00:00 In This Episode…
00:50 Introduction
06:30 Mathematics and Philosophy with Haim Gaifman
23:44 From Physics to Philosophy
34:49 Philosophy and Scientific Inquiry
49:37 Why Formal Philosophy
57:05 What is Logic?
01:05:56 Monism and Pluralism in Logic
01:21:52 The Historical Roles of Logic in Philosophy
01:26:18 Peripatetic Logic
01:41:23 Leibniz and Logic
Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.