Lugano Philosophy Colloquia. Francesca Boccuni

Francesca Boccuni (Vita-Salute San Raffaele) will give the talk Forever Young: A Hundred Years of (Frege’s) Abstractionism on Friday, March 21 at 5.30pm (CET), Room Multiuso FTL Building (USI west campus).

Abstract:

Famously, Frege’s logicist programme for the foundations of mathematics, based on higher-order logic and abstraction principles, was doomed to failure due to inconsistency. Nonetheless, the legacy of his inquiry was not lost: A hundred years after Frege’s passing, the debate around his philosophy of mathematics is still vigorous, and investigation into the roots of the inconsistency of his programme has prompted alternative ways to use Fregean abstractions for foundational purposes. In this talk, we will explore Frege’s Logicism, its inconsistency, and several possible solutions proposed in the most recent logico-philosophical debate.

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