Remarks on Frege’s theory of communication

Kepa Korta (University of Basque Country)

The next meeting of the Sign-Language-Reality seminar in the academic
year 2024/25 will take place:

Thursday, the 28th of November 2024, 17.00, Central European Time

Kepa Korta
(University of the Basque Country, UPV-EHU)

will deliver a talk:

Remarks on Frege’s theory of communication

Abstract:
It is a commonplace of the philosophy of language that Frege’s
pragmatics, understood as a theory of communication, responds to the
conception generally dubbed the “code,” “message,” or “transmission”
model, according to which
successful communication requires the identity between the thought
expressed by the speaker in uttering a sentence and the thought
grasped by the hearer. There is also a general consensus on the fact
that indexicals and demonstratives pose singular problems for his
theory of meaning as sense and reference; problems that philosophers
of language and mind have been trying to solve by proposing various
Fregean, neo-Fregean or directly non-Fregean accounts. The aim of this
work is to shed some light on Frege’s theory of communication by
discussing the specific problems that proper names, indexicals and
demonstratives pose to (pure or impure versions) of the transmission
model and the role that Frege might have envisaged for a logically
perfect language.

The seminar will be held online, to join the meeting, please use the
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The meeting opens at 4:45 pm, the talk starts at 5 pm.

The presentation shall be recorded.