7 - 8 November 2024, Neo-Fregeanism Workshop

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.

Speakers
Francesca Boccuni (Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Oystein Linnebo (Oslo)
Robert May (UC Davis)
Eileen Nutting (Kansas)
Walter Pedriali (St Andrews)
Ian Rumfitt (Oxford)
Andrea Sereni (IUSS Pavia)
Crispin Wright (Stirling)
Luca Zanetti (IUSS Pavia)

Registration
To register, please send an email (not later than Oct 20) to: b.assadian at leeds.ac.uk

Free admission; everybody is welcome.
Organizer
Bahram Assadian
University of Leeds, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science

Funding
This project has received funding from the UK Research and Innovation
(UKRI) under the UK government's Horizon Europe funding guarantee – grant agreement No EP/X026949/1.