Ontology Summit 2025 Track 1

Agenda

Title: The Heirs of Hilbert's Sixth Problem
Abstract: In an address to the International Congress on Mathematicians in 1900, David Hilbert posed twenty-three challenge problems, in areas ranging from logic to number theory and partial differential equations. These problems have had a profound impact on research in mathematics. However, the sixth problem posed by Hilbert has never been adequately addressed: ``Mathematical treatment of the axioms of physics: The investigations on the foundations of geometry suggest the problem: To treat in the same manner, by means of axioms, those physical sciences in which mathematics plays an important part." This talk will explore the ways in which ontologies are the axiomatic theories required by Hilbert as a solution to his Sixth Problem. It will also consider how the methodology for evaluating scientific theories can be applied to the problem of empirical evaluation of ontologies.

Date: Wednesday, 05 February 2025
Start Time: 9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST / 6:00pm CET / 5:00pm GMT / 1700 UTC
- ref: World Clock
Expected Call Duration: 1 hour
Video Conference URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88593616861?pwd=HafnK0yB7PFDK1EyiUyQRDKanZlbjU.1
- Conference ID: 885 9361 6861
- Passcode: 306236

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ConferenceCall 2025 02 12	Track 1