Frege's Puzzle

June 21, 2015

Workshop organized by

Marco Ruffino
(State University of Campinas, Brazil)

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together people working on several aspects and implications of the so-called Frege’s Puzzle (i.e., the puzzle about cognitive differences between true identity statements that Frege classically presents as the main motivation for the recognition of senses as semantic values besides references). There are problems of all sorts both in the formulation of the puzzle and in Frege’s solution of the puzzle. But if Frege’s solution is rejected (i.e., if we eliminate senses) then a new problem arises for Millianism in explaining cognitive differences between co-referential expressions. The workshop should discuss all these many problematic aspects and the main alternative solutions that have been proposed.

Keynote Speaker

Eros Corazza
ILCLI, The University of the Basque Country, Carleton University, Ottawa ON, Canada
"Identity Statements, Doxastic Co-Indexation, and Frege’s Puzzle"

Contributing Speakers

Emiliano Boccardi, State University of Campinas, Brazil  Frege’s Puzzle: Much Ado about Nothings

Stefano Predelli, University of Nottingham, UK, Frege’s Puzzle and Millianism

Marco Ruffino, State University of Campinas, Brazil,   Frege’s Puzzle: Can we Pose it on Frege’s behalf?

Ludovic Soutif, Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,   In What Sense (Statement) of the Puzzle Problematic?

David Suarez-Rivero, State University of Campinas, Brazil,   Wettstein on Frege’s Puzzle