Upper Logicism: Opening Workshop

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17-19 June 2026

Room C201.J / Mattos Romão

(Dep. Philosphy)

School of Arts and Humanities

University of Lisbon

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Attendance is free, but in-person only.

All are welcome!

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Wednesday, 17 June 2026

09:30-11:00 Joan Bertran-San-Millán (Complutense): Burali-Forti’s Construction of Arithmetic
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Célia Teixeira (UFRJ): Toward an Account of the A Priori

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:00 António Zilhão (Lisbon): On Frege’s Ontological Commitments
16:00-16.30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Chris Scambler (Oxford): You take the high road, I’ll take the low road: A comparison of Upper and Eliminative Logicism.

19:00 Conference dinner

 

Thursday, 18 June 2026

09:30-11:00 José Mestre (Lisbon): Russell and the Context Principle
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Francisca Silva (Lisbon): What Role for Grounding in Neologicism?

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:00 Felipe Carrasco (St Andrews): Can Higher-Order Logic Satisfy the Demands of Abstractionism?
16:00-16.30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Francesca Boccuni (San Raffaele): TBA

19:00 Conference dinner

 

Friday, 19 June 2026

09:30-11:00 Bruno Jacinto (Lisbon): Ordinals, Cardinals and Logicism
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon): TBA

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:00 Project meeting
16:00-16.30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Project meeting

19:00 Conference dinner

 

The workshop is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the project 2023.17156.ICDT (https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.17156.ICDT) and UID/00310/2025 Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/00310/2025)