Paul Bernays Lectures

The Paul Bernays Lectures are an annual and three-​part honorary lecture series about the philosophy of the exact sciences.

Kevin Buzzard

The 2023 Paul Bernays Lectures took place from 28 to 30 August 2023 and were delivered by Kevin Buzzard, Professor of Pure Mathematics at Imperial College, London. Read more

The series will alternate between the philosophy of logic or mathematics and the philosophy of physics. This lecture series is established in honour of the eminent logician, mathematician and philosopher of logic and mathematics Paul Bernays who was engaged in teaching and research at the ETH Zurich from 1933 to 1959.

Within the framework of the Paul Bernays Lectures outstanding philosophers of logic, mathematics or physics will be invited to speak about their pioneering research. The first lecture will present the research topics for a wider audience, the second lecture will address the research community, and a final seminar will offer to the members of the research community the opportunity to discuss with the invited speaker selected research topics and ideas.

Members of the Paul Bernays Lectures committee

  • Emmanuel Kowalski (Head of the committee), Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
  • Jürg Fröhlich, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
  • Hanjo Glock, Philosophic Seminar, University of Zurich
  • Alessandra Iozzi, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
  • Gerhard Jäger, Logic and Theory Group, Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern
  • Ueli Maurer, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
  • Norman Sieroka, Philosophy of Physics, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich
  • Giovanni Sommaruga, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich, emeritus
  • Stefan Wolf, Quantum Information, Università della Svizzera Italiana

Video recordings

The recordings of the Paul Bernays Lectures are available on the ETH Zurich Video Portal.

Contact

Marcela Krämer
  • HG J 64
  • +41 44 632 34 75

Professur für Mathematik
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

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