SEMINAR IN TRIBUTE TO GOTTLOB FREGE ON THE CENTENARY OF HIS DEATH (1925-2025)

SEMINAR IN TRIBUTE TO GOTTLOB FREGE 

ON THE CENTENARY OF HIS DEATH (1925-2025)

“THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GOTTLOB FREGE AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO 

LOGIC, THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY 

OF LANGUAGE”

University of Santiago de Compostela

Sala de Xuntas, Faculty of Philosophy, 2nd Floor

Praza Mazarelos s/n, Santiago de Compostela

December 4, 2025

Schedule

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome

09:15 – 10:00 Marcus Rossberg (University of Connecticut): “The Sameness of 

Sense and Basic Law V”

10:00 – 10:30 Discussion

10:30 – 11:15 María de Ponte & Kepa Korta (UPV/EHU): “Frege and the 

transmission model of communication”

11:15 – 11:45 Discussion

11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 12:45 Genoveva Martí (ICREA, U. of Barcelona): “Frege on language. 

The primacy of representation”

12:45 – 13:15 Discussion

13:30 – 15:30 Lunch

15:30 – 16:15 Joan Bertran San Millán (UCM): “Mathematical Motivations in

Frege’s Begriffsschrift: The Generality of Arithmetic and Logicism”

16:15 – 16:45 Discussion

16:45 – 17:00 Pause

17:00 – 17:45 Walter B. Pedriali (St. Andrews): “Logicism and Intrinsic 

Justification”

17:45 – 18:15 Discussion

18:15 Closure

21:00 Dinner 

Organizer: Xavier de Donato (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Public funds by Vice-chancellor’s office for Scientific Policy (USC) and 

“Discourse and Identity” GRC Research Group.

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