Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy 28-30 MAY
Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy
Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics and Language
University of Bucharest
Department of Philosophy
Saturday, May 28th
Chair: Mircea Dumitru
09:00 – 10:00 – Michael Potter: Sometimes I seem to see a difficulty: Frege’s conception of self-subsistence
10:00 – 11:00 – Danielle Machbeth: Seeing How It Goes: The Peculiar Role of Writing in Mathematical Reasoning
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 – Katherine Dunlop: Frege on definitions
12:30 – 13:30 – Greg Lavers: Frege and philosophical analysis
13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:00 – Elina Nurmi: Theory of Meaning in the Begriffsschrift – Two Misconceptions
16:00 – 17:00 – Sorin Costreie: Frege on sense and contentful mathematics
Sunday, May 29th
Chair: Norma Goethe
09:00 – 10:00 – Matthias Schirn: Frege’s philosophy of geometry
10:00 – 11:00 – Oystein Linnebo: Grounded abstraction
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 – Gabriel Sandu: Logicism and the notion of arbitrary function
12:30 – 13:30 – Markus Pantsar: Arithmetical truth after Frege
13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:00 – Erich Reck: Frege, Dedekind, and the Origins of Logicism
16:00 – 17:00 – Philip Ebert & Marcus Rossberg: Platonism in Frege’s Grundgesetze?
Monday, May 30th
Special honorary session at the rectorate of the University of Bucharest
Chair: Ioan Panzaru
10:00 – Saul Kripke – Doctor Honoris Causa
Chair: Gabriel Sandu
12:30 – 13:30 – Saul Kripke: Frege and Others on the First Person
13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:00 – Graeme Forbes: The Problem of Factives for Sense Theories
16:00 – 17:00 – Mircea Dumitru: Frege’s Puzzle. New approaches
17:00 – 17:30 – Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:30 – Kit Fine: TBA