Introduction

0:00 Thank you very much for your numerous presence here today and hopefully also tomorrow. I apologize for the small delay in our program, but since Graham mis-explained and will speak tomorrow and not today, that is not just such a disaster with respect to the other scheduled talks as well. I want to say a few words with respect to how and when I conceived of this. So that the idea behind it might be clear to all of you. I can imagine that someone will have a chance to find an extraordinary combination of people from very different backgrounds, philosophical traditions. Well, that's exactly what we deliberately wanted to do. The concept behind this conference is not so much to be very coherent and to be very focused from one very limited perspective on a very specified topic. We want to raise more fundamental issues which are going on in philosophy these days, not only in my philosophy of science but also within what is called continental tradition. Many people feel that there are like issues that are highly discussed although they deserve, or when they are discussed they only deserve to be in small groups of people and not crossing the border, let's say it like that. Not a focal point, but a nice articulation of the circuit of history. The cultural reform is not about the world, but this idea of bringing together people who are versed in the more formal approach to philosophy, mathematics, foundations, and who at the same time are capable to think within the grids of the other community of people who try to realize this theory is actually pleasing. In the sense of something like an ontology comes in fact to help fix themselves, to make events possible by working with the material of the situation without complying to the loss of the situation as it is present.

2:30 I hope you can find yourself again with this. This is also, as you know, to be sure that you will be seen again with him. This is an important point of reference, but we try to use the work of Alain Badiou as a point of reference in this film. Of course, this does not mean that we will discuss the subject of this conference on Badiou's work, but it is an example that shows us how to do it. And so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on We had contacted Alain Jadot, and he was interested to come and set me up to do an activity tomorrow morning, even though he had done it in the morning in Marseille, which was not combined at all. But we hope not to be too blur. There will not only be the procedures of this conference, which will appear quite soon in the Royal Academy, but there will also be a little bit of work which needs to be done. That we will bring together the people that go through the field of social arts around the same theme, structure and identity, and their practical forces.

5:00 About structure and identity, finally, why did we choose this small of a small group? Why did we go for this little subject with the vast portion of possibilities that there are? Well, I think that it is something that you can see revealed immediately. I'm always surprised that one can discuss about, say, for instance, Leibniz's principle of individual mobility. When you have to take into account that according to the traditional metaphysical, Marko and I have spoken to him, he underpins most of it. He says that since you cannot accept that you can be run with foundational skills. Mathematics principles apply to many many cultures. So you come back to what do you understand by the nature of the object world and this is not our discussion today, but what perspectives can we today develop in this way. And this interesting opposition in the foundation of mathematics that you set theory and now... In that case, category theory, where you can have the internal point of view on what is across to the external point of view, what relations can be made with the political environment, is an example, a crucial example, that shows that even within the formalistic approach, something is very different. This is why this seems to us a very interesting theme. Here's our terminal position, and we will announce it, especially after our press will be all day, but anyway, we've got to stay back last year, I think, for a few months.