A study of the structure of illocutionary acts in Mathematical language

• Grant number: 21/14099-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2022
• End date: December 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Epistemology
• Principal Investigator: Marco Antonio Caron Ruffino
• Grantee: Pedro Daher Novo
• Host Institution: Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência (CLE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Philosophy of mathematics, especially in the twentieth and in the early twenty-one century, assumed that mathematical languages do not admit pragmatic elements of ordinary language. Consequently, speech act theory as it was developed by Austin, Searle, and Vanderveken didn´t deeply approach the philosophy of mathematics. Only recently some articles appeared about a taxonomy of typically mathematical speech acts. The main purpose of this project is to apply this taxonomy, particularly to the assertive and directive illocutionary acts present in pure mathematics.(AU)