Neo-Fregeanism Workshop

November 7, 2024 - November 8, 2024
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds

Leeds
United Kingdom

Sponsor(s):

  • UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee – grant agreement No EP/X026949/1

Speakers:

University Vita-Salute San Raffaele
(unaffiliated)
University of California, Davis
University of Kansas
University of St. Andrews
Oxford University
Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia
University of Stirling
Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia

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University of Leeds

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Abstractionism/Neo-Fregeanism in the philosophy of mathematics is the thesis that Fregean abstraction principles, such as Hume's Principle, play an essential role in our knowledge of mathematical truths, the existence of mathematical objects, and our capacity to effect singular reference to these objects. The workshop will explore the logico-mathematical aspects of neo-Fregeanism, such as Frege's Theorem and the Bad Company Objection, as well as its philosophical aspects including Frege's Caesar Problem, the possibility of mathematical singular thought and/or reference, and the epistemology of abstraction principles. The workshop occasions the imminent publication of the second edition of Crispin Wright's Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects. We will explore variations on themes from Wright.    

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October 20, 2024, 11:00am BST

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