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Iulian D. Toader

Curriculum Vitae (March 2014)

Institute for Advanced Study Central European University Phone: 003613273000/2595 Nador 13, 1051, Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Research Interests:

• General Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic • Early Analytic Philosophy, Naturalistic Metaphysics

Academic Positions:

• EURIAS Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, CEU Budapest, 2013-2014 • Marie Curie Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, , 2011-2014

Education:

• PhD in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, USA, 2011 Directors: Michael Detlefsen and Don Howard Committee: Patricia Blanchette, Katherine Brading, Curtis Franks • PhD in Philosophy, University of Bucharest, , 2004 (magna cum laude) Director: Ilie Pârvu Committee: Mircea Dumitru, Mircea Flonta, Adrian Miroiu

Fellowships, Assistantships, Grants:

• 2013-2014 European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship • 2013 Conference Travel Grant, Romanian Cultural Institute, • 2012 Conference Travel Grant, Romanian Cultural Institute, • 2011-2014 Marie Curie Fellowship (CIG), European Commission, FP7 • 2011 Conference Travel Grants, Philosophy Department, University of Notre Dame • 2011 Graduate Student Union Conference Presentation Grant, University of Notre Dame • 2008 Visiting Fellowship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the TransCoop Program directed by Michael Detlefsen, University of Notre Dame • 2004-2011 Graduate Assistantship, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame • 2003-2004 University Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame • 2002-2003 Sproull Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, University of Rochester • 2002 Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ludwig-Maximilians University , sponsored by the World Bank through the Theories of Complexity Program directed by Ilie Pârvu, University of Bucharest • 2000-2001 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Scholarship, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Konstanz • 2000 ÖAD (Austrian Academic Exchange Service) Research Scholarship, Institut für Philosophie, Karl Franzens Universität Books, Special Issues, Dissertations:

• New Directions in the Philosophy of Physics, special issue of Foundations of Physics (in preparation) • Romanian Studies in the Philosophy of Science, co-edited with and Ilie Pârvu, under contract with Springer for Boston Studies. • Logic and its Philosophy, special issue of Romanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2013 (co-edited with Gheorghe Stefanov) • Objectivity Sans Intelligibility. Hermann Weyl's Symbolic Constructivism, PhD diss., University of Notre Dame, 2011. Published as a book by ProQuest, Ann Arbor/Michigan, 2012. • Carnap's Early Representationalism, PhD diss., University of Bucharest, 2004.

Articles, Chapters:

• "Structural Possibilism: A Lesson from Unitary Inequivalence in QFT" (in progress) • "Weyl's Conception of Mathematics" (in progress) • "Objectivity and Understanding: A New Reading of Carnap's Aufbau" in Influences on Carnap's Aufbau, ed. by Ch. Damboeck, Institute Circle Yearbook 2014 (under review) • "Against Harmony: Infinite Idealizations and Causal Explanation” in Romanian Studies in the Philosophy of Science, ed. by G. Sandu et al., Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Springer (under review) • "Predicativism, Evidence, and the Omega-Rule" in Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (under review) • "Why did Weyl Think that Formalism's Victory Against Intuitionism Entails a Defeat of Pure Phenomenology?" in History and Philosophy of Logic, doi:10.1080/01445340.2013.860732 • "A Carnapian Approach to Counterexamples to Modus Ponens" in Romanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 7, 78-85, 2013 (with Constantin C. Brincus) • "Concept Formation and Scientific Objectivity: Weyl's Turn against Husserl" in HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 3, 281-305, 2013 • "The Order of the Physical World and the Existence of God" in and/or Jerusalem: Essays on the Relation between Science and Religion, ed. by M. Balan, University of Bucharest Press, 2013 (in Romanian) • "Is Mathematics the Theory of Instantiated Structural Universals?" in Transylvanian Review, 22, 132-142, 2013 • "Fictionalism and the Problem of Mathematical Objectivity" in Metaphysics and Science. Festschrift for Professor Ilie Pârvu, ed. by M. Dumitru et al., University of Bucharest Press, 137-158, 2012 (in Romanian) • "An Outline of Weylean Skepticism" in Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, ed. by C. Martínez Vidal et al., Universidade de Publicacions, 529-535, 2012 • "A Diagrammatic Reconstruction of Carnap’s Quasianalysis" in Synthese, 142, 43-59, 2004 • "On Frege’s Logical Diagrams" in Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, ed. by A. Blackwell et al., Springer, 22-25, 2004 • "Mathematical Diagrams in Practice: An Evolutionary Account" in Logique et Analyse, 179/180, 341-355, 2002

Invited Talks:

• "Weyl's Conception of Mathematics", at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna, 26 May 2014 • "Fictions in Science", at the EURIAS meeting, Collegium for Advanced Studies, 25-26 April 2014 • "Talking about dirty things, or how to be a scientific fictionalist", at the Institute for Advanced Study, CEU Budapest, 26 March 2014 • "Infinite Idealizations and Optimal Causal Explanation" at the Institute for Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 26 November 2013 • "Infinite Idealizations and Optimal Causal Explanation" in the Seminar for Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 23 October 2013 • "Knowledge by Construction" in the Seminar for Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 14 November 2012 • "Scientific Understanding Through Idealization Control" at the Models and Representations in Science Workshop, , Iasi, 27-30 September 2012 • "The Eutaxiological Argument" in the Science, Religion, and Philosophy Summer Course, University of Bucharest, 3-7 September 2012 • "Algebraic Closure, Unification, and Understanding" at the Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy: Philosophy of Mathematics Today, Univ. of Bucharest, 1-3 June 2012 • "Structural Realism and Modal Dappling" in the Philosophy of Science Seminar, Bristol University, 25 April 2012 • "Structural Realism and Modal Dappling" in the Seminar for Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 11 April 2012 • "Weylean Skepticism" in the Department of Philosophy, Muğla University, 3 April 2012 • "Weylean Skepticism" in the Department of Philosophy, Bogaziçi University, 30 March 2012 • "Phenomenological Intuitions and Intuitionistic Grounds" in the Logic Group Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington, 14 September 2011 • "Understanding and Provability" at the First Midwest Workshop on Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, 15-16 April 2011 • "Schlick's Critical or Empiricist Interpretation of Modern Physics?" guest lecture in Don Howard's Philosophy of Science graduate class at the University of Notre Dame, 13 September 2005 • "Mathematical Picture-Proofs: A Cognitive Analysis" at the Philosophy of Science International Conference, Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, 8-13 April 2002

Contributed Talks:

• "Believing Provable Propositions" at SILFS 2014, the Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of 3, 18-20 June 2014 • "Trans-World Structuralism and Naturalistic Metaphysics" at Foundations of Physics 2013, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 29-31 July 2013 • "Quasianalytic Individuation” at Influences on Carnap's Aufbau workshop, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 1-3 July 2013 • "Why did Weyl think that formalism's victory against intuitionism entails a defeat of pure phenomenology?" at the 44th International Meeting of the Husserl Circle, Karl-Franzens- University Graz, 20-22 June 2013 • "Against Weylean Skepticism" at the 1st International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, GWP 2013, University of Hannover, 11-14 March 2013 • "Algebraic Closure, Unification, and Understanding" at the International Symposium on Epistemology, Logic, and Language, University of , 29-31 October 2012 • "An Outline of Weylean Skepticism" at the 7th Congress of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, 18-20 July 2012 • "Phenomenological Intuitions and Intuitionistic Grounds" at the French Society for Analytic Philosophy International Conference, ENS, , 4-6 May 2012 • "Does Structural Realism Support the World Dappling Hypothesis?" at the Second Midwest Workshop on Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, 11-12 November 2011 • "The Dappling Effects of Scientific Idealization" at the Third Congress of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Athens, 5-8 October 2011 • "The Epistemic Virtues of Weyl's 'Immanent' Axiomatics" at the Second Classical Model of Science Conference, Free University , 2-5 August 2011 • "Non-Propositional Aspects of Carnap’s Quasianalysis" at the Fourth History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Congress, Concordia University, , 21-23 June 2002

Teaching:

At the University of Bucharest (Lecturer): • What is Understanding? (Spring 2013, 5 students, co-taught with M. Flonta and Gh. Stefanov) • Causal Explanation (Fall 2012, 15 students) • Fictionalism (Spring 2012, 15 students)

At the University of Notre Dame (Graduate Instructor): • Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2011, 38 students) • Philosophy of Science (Spring 2011, 37 students) • Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2008 - Fall 2010, 60 students per semester)

At the University of Notre Dame (Graduate Assistant): • Logic (Spring 2006, 30 students) • Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2004 - Spring 2007, 30 students per semester)

Professional Service:

• Co-organizer of The Bucharest-Budapest Workshop in Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, 4-5 April 2014 • Chair at the Foundations of Physics, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig- Maximilians-University Munich, 29-31 July 2013 • Organizer of New Directions in the Philosophy of Physics, Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 24-26 May 2013 • Organizer of Symposium on Einstein's Philosophy of Science, University of Bucharest, 25 May 2013 • Chair at Philosophy of Mathematics Today, Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 1-3 June 2012 • Organizer of Half-Day Workshop Series, University of Bucharest, 2012-2013 • Referee for Oxford University Press (2010, 2011), Palgrave Macmillan (2012)

Professional Membership:

• Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice • European Philosophy of Science Association • British Society for the Philosophy of Science

Languages: English (fluent), French (fair), German (fair), Romanian (native)