New episode of Skholé: Formalism with Juan Luis Gastaldi

In this new episode of Skholé, Yann Audin welcomes Juan Luis Gastaldi.

Juan Luis Gastaldi is an Argentinian-Italian philosopher based in Zurich who focuses on formal sciences, computer science, language, and the history of ideas. In 2014, he defended a doctoral dissertation in philosophy at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne titled “A Logical Archaeology of Meaning: Arithmetic and Content in the Process of the Mathematisation of Logic in the 19th Century,” and then began an academic career in Montpellier and later in Zurich. Since 2020, Juan Luis Gastaldi has been pursuing a second doctorate—this time in computer science—at ETH. His articles can be found in Minds and Machines, Philosophy & Technology, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Cités, and Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.

Episode Summary

The philosophical concept of form resists simple definitions; it seems always to unfold in relation to the problems of its time. At the intersection of philosophy, the arts, and the sciences, different formalist traditions push the limits of what humans can represent and define. In this episode, Juan Luis Gastaldi talks to us about form, a philosophical notion that seeks to grasp the articulations between the immutable and change.

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