2025 William Reinhardt Memorial Lecture

The William Reinhardt Memorial Lecture in the Philosophy of Mathematics was founded to commemorate the life of William Reinhardt, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado from 1967 until his death in 1998. He did important work in set theory, logic, and the foundations of mathematics. A central focus of his work was the search for new axioms of mathematics. The study of new axioms in mathematics requires the ability to stand back from mathematical practice and ask questions about the general principles that guide and justify it -- questions that engage philosophical as well as mathematical issues. For this reason, Professor Reinhardt was considered a philosopher as well as a mathematician. He made profound contributions to the philosophy and foundations of mathematics.

The Reinhardt Lecture, which is co-sponsored by the Reinhardt Fund and the Department of Philosophy, brings a leading contemporary philosopher of mathematics to Boulder to give a talk on some topic in set theory, logic, or the foundations of mathematics.

Joel David Hamkins will give a second talk in the Algebra and Logic Seminar: 

Introduction to modal model theory

Wednesday, March 12, 3:30 pm, Math 220