"History of Logic" Seminar Series - Talk: P. Frascolla, "On the Foundations of the Tractatus' Logical Atomism" (10.04.2025)
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I am happy to announce the sixth session of our History of Logic seminar series. The session will be held on Thursday, April 10, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central European Time (CET).
It will be held in hybrid form. We will meet at the Battaglia Library Hall of the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II (Stairs B, Third Floor - Maps). It will be broadcast via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please check the contacts page of our site.
On this occasion, we will host a talk by Pasquale Frascolla, Professor in Philosophy of Language at the University of Naples Federico II. He is one of the foremost experts on Wittgenstein, particularly in the field of his philosophy of mathematics. He is the author of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics (1994) and Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus (2007).
His talk is titled On the Foundations of the Tractatus’ Logical Atomism. Here is a short abstract:
The talk has a threefold objective: a) to clarify the reasons that lead Wittgenstein to attribute the characteristic of substantiality, understood as the property of subsisting independently of what is the case, to objects, that is, to the entities playing the semantic role of references of names; b) to present the logical atomism of the Tractatus in its skeletal form, so to speak, that is, as a schematic ontology which becomes a full-blown ontology once the specific nature of objects and states of affairs is determined; c) to formulate a condition of adequacy for the interpretation of the Tractatus ontology and to show that the conjectural identification of objects with phenomenal qualities (qualia, in Goodman’s sense) satisfies this condition.
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