This House Believes That Maths is Fake.
Doors open at 19:30, the debate starts at 20:00.
Due to fire safety the event is capped at 160 participants.
Collaboration with the SUMS Society.
The academic title of the debate reads as "This House Believes That Mathematics Is a Human Invention Rather Than a Discovery."
Details
Doors open 30 minutes before the advertised time.
Date and time
Thursday, 12 February 2026 at 20:00:00 UTC
Venue
Buchanan Lecture Theatre, Union Street, St Andrews, UK.
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Speakers
Professor Peter Cameron
Prof Peter Cameron is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, focusing on algebra, combinatorics, and model theory. He has contributed to the field of mathematics through numerous discoveries and has won numerous prizes, such as the Whitehead Prize in 1979 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018.
Dr Walter Pedriali
Dr Walter Pedriali is a senior lecturer in Philosophy, with a focus on interdisciplinary studies. His specialities include the philosophy of logic, language, epistemology and normativity.
Professor Greg Restall
Professor Greg Restall is a professor specialising in logic, the philosophy of logic, and proof theory. He has published over 100 papers and written 5 books.
Dr David Waszek
Dr David Waszek is a historian and philosopher of mathematics. He is interested in how mathematics is expressed and its relation to epistemic values such as intelligibility and explanatoriness.
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