Announcement: Commemorating Frege: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics

[Joan Bertran San Millán]

“Commemorating Frege: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics” Workshop

Dates: September 10-12, 2025

Venue: Maynense Room, Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Rua da Academia das Ciências, 19), Lisbon.

This workshop will commemorate the philosophical work and legacy of Gottlob Frege on the occasion of the centenary, in 2025, of his death. It aims to bring together philosophers working on Frege’s and Fregean approaches to logic and the philosophy of mathematics, both from a historical and a contemporary perspective.

Invited speakers: Francesca Boccuni (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University), Philip Ebert (University of Stirling), Leila Haaparanta (University of Helsinki), Erich H. Reck (UC Riverside), Kai F. Wehmeier (UC Irvine), Crispin Wright (University of Stirling).

Programme

Wednesday, September 10th

9:30 - 11:00 Philip Ebert (University of Stirling) - How Fregean are the Neo-Fregeans really?

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 Chris Scambler (University of Oxford) - Eliminative Logicism Meets Frege on the Reals

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna) - Constructing objects from concepts: Kant, Frege, and Basic Law V

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 Francesca Boccuni (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University) - This is no Ordinary Arithmetic. Frege Cardinals and Finitude

Thursday, September 11th

9:30 - 11:00 Kai Wehmeier (University of California Irvine) - On Russell and Church on Frege on identity

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 Janine Gühler (University of Oxford) - Frege on the objectivity and (in-)dependence of reason of numbers

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Ludovica Conti (University of Vienna) - Frege’s Impredicativity

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 Erich Reck (University of California Riverside) Frege and Peirce on Logical Articulation (online)

Friday, September 12th

9:30 - 11:00 Leila Haaparanta (University of Helsinki) - Logical Expressivism and the Method of Analysis: Remarks on Frege's Early Inferentialism (online)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 Moritz Bodner (University of Vienna) The Frege-Hilbert-Controversy as a Dispute about Meaningfulness

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Fabian Pregel (University of Oxford) - Is logical consequence a relation between Fregean thoughts?

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 Crispin Wright (University of Stirling) - What would be a reasonable assessment of Frege's achievement in Grundgesetze if the contradiction had never come to light?

Everyone is welcome. 

This workshop is funded by the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL) (UIDB/00310/2020) and the Centre for Mathematical Studies of the University of Lisbon (CEMS.UL) (UID/04561/2025).

For more information or enquiries, please check the website of the workshop or contact bmja...@ciencias.ulisboa.pt or joan...@ucm.es.

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Joan Bertran-San-Millán, Ph.D.
Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Website | Departamento de Lógica y Filosofía Teórica