Joint Astronomy & Particle Physics Colloquium

Wednesday 19 Nov 2025, 12:30 → 13:30 Asia/Tehran

Ahmad Mashal (ILSF)

Joint Astronomy & Particle Physics Colloquium (hybrid format)

• Meeting Place: Seminar Room, School of Particles and Accelerators, IPM
• Link to join virtually: https://www.skyroom.online/ch/ipm-particles/special-seminar

12:30 → 13:30 Ontology in Mathematics

The purpose of this talk is to provide an overview of some of the epistemological and metaphysical questions that are brought up in relation to mathematical thought and mathematical truth. These concerns encompass, among other things, the nature of abstract objects such as sets and numbers, some of the well-known arguments for their existence as well as the philosophical problems that their existence incurs. There will also be some brief discussions of certain anti-realist approaches to mathematical ontology.

Speaker: Prof. Hamid Vahid (School of Analytic Philosophy,IPM)