Boccuni Francesca Professore AssociatoFilosofiaM-FIL/02

Laureata in Filosofia presso l’Università di Padova con una tesi dal titolo “Il teorema di incompletezza di Gödel e il principio russelliano del circolo vizioso” (relatore: Prof. Enrico Martino), ha conseguito il titolo di dottore di ricerca in Filosofia del Linguaggio presso l’Università del Piemonte Orientale con la tesi “Quantificazione plurale e revisione predicativa dei Grundgesetze freghiani” (relatore: Prof. Gabriele Usberti, Università di Siena – commissione: Prof. Andrea Bonomi, Prof. Enrico Moriconi, Prof. Alfredo Paternoster).

È stata borsista post-lauream presso l’Università di Padova con il progetto “Paradossi ed enunciato indecidibile di Gödel”. Durante il dottorato, è stata visiting fellow presso l’Università di Oxford, l’Istituto Jean Nicod-CNRS di Parigi e il dipartimento di Filosofia della Ohio State University (USA). È stata British Academy Visiting Post-Doctoral fellow presso l’Università di Bristol, borsista di ricerca presso la Facoltà di Filosofia dell’Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, visiting fellow presso l’Institute of Advanced Study di Londra e presso il progetto “Plurals, Predicates and Paradox” (European Research Council) all’Università di Oslo. Nel 2013 è stata nuovamente visiting fellow alla Ohio State University. Nel 2015, è stata visiting fellow presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia di UC Davis (USA). Nel gennaio 2016, è stata visiting fellow presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia della Bilkent University (Turchia). Nel 2022, è stata visiting fellow presso la Northwestern University (Chicago) e la Kansas State University. Attualmente, è professore associato presso la Facoltà di Filosofia dell’Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele.

È membro del comitato promotore del network italiano di filosofia della matematica FilMat (www.filmatnetwork.com), del centro di ricerca Cogito (www.cogito.lagado.org), e del CRESA (www.cresa.eu). Fa parte del collegio di dottorato in Filosofia dell’Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele.

I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano il programma astrazionista in filosofia della matematica e il logicismo fregeano, la logica dei predicati del secondo ordine e la logica plurale, il problema del riferimento in matematica.

Attività didattica

Insegna Logica formale (laurea triennale) e Logica filosofica (laurea magistrale) per la Facoltà di Filosofia dell’Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele. Insegna inoltre i corsi di Logic of scientific discovery and innovation (Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Biotechnology and Medical Biology) e parte del corso di Metodologie didattiche e scrittura filosofica (Facoltà di Filosofia, UniSR). Ha insegnato per il corso di Filosofia della Scienza e bioetica (Corso di Laurea in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche, UniSR) e Filosofia e cognizione (Corso di Laurea in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche, UniSR).

Seminari e convegni (selezione):

2022

The Caesar Problem Problem (joint work with Luca Zanetti), Kansas State University, May (invited)

Explicit Abstract Objects, OC-IE HPML Group, Chapman University, May (invited)

2021

How to Hamlet a Caesar (with Luca Zanetti, PoliMI), XIV Convegno Nazionale della Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica: Shaping the future: What’s the Role of Philosophy?

Relevant Abstractionism (with Shay Logan, Kansas State University), CRESA WIP seminars, UniSR, June

How to Hamlet a Caesar (with Luca Zanetti, IUSS, Pavia), IUSS Philosophy Seminars eMath Project, IUSS, Pavia, May (invited)

How to Hamlet a Caesar. Il Principio di Hume è analitico? (with Luca Zanetti, IUSS, Pavia), Synergia seminars, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, March (invited)

How to Hamlet a Caesar (with Luca Zanetti, IUSS, Pavia), Science and More Talks, University of Turin, February (invited)

2020

How to Hamlet a Caesar (with Luca Zanetti, IUSS, Pavia), CRESA WIP Seminars, UniSR, November

High Hopes for Frege’s Logicism?, University of Birmingham, February (invited)

2018

- Sortali, identità e astrazione, Inferenze: logica, scienze, linguaggio. Giornata di studi in onore di Pierdaniele Giaretta, University of Padua, November (invited)

- Abstraction for real(s)! Frege’s theory of real numbers (with Marco Panza), Varieties of Mathematical Abstraction,  University of Wien, July (invited)

- Lightweight Neologicisim (do a lot with less), Meaning and Knowledge: Celebrating Gabriele Usberti and his work, University of Siena, July (invited)

- Realismo e indeterminatezza in filosofia della matematica, Lost in physics and metaphysics. Questioni di realismo scientifico, Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, January (invited)

2017

- Reference in Formal Semantics and Natural Language: A Methodological Route, The Methods of Philosophy, Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Cesano Maderno, October

- Arithmetic on the Cheap, ECAP9 (contributed workshop ‘Mathematical Platonism: Frege and Neo-Fregeanism’), LMU, Munich, August (invited)

2016

- What should we render unto Caesar?, (with Jack Woods – Leeds University), FPMW8, Marseille, November (contributed)

- Structuralist (Neo-?)Logicism, (with Jack Woods – Leeds University), Foundations of Mathematical Structuralism, MCMP, Munich, October (contributed)

- Arithmetic on the Cheap, Fregean Issues in Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, University of Milan, October (invited)

- Metaphysically Lightweight Arithmetic: You can’t always get what you want, but you get what you need, workshop Plural Foundations, University of Leeds, UK, June (invited)

- What should we render unto Caesar?, (with Jack Woods – Bilkent University), University of Bologna, March (invited)

- What should we render unto Caesar?, (with Jack Woods – Bilkent University), first IUSS-IHPST workshop in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, IUSS Pavia, March (invited)

- The Julius Caesar Problem and Invariance, Philosophy Department, Bilkent University, Turkey, January (invited)

2015

- Metaphysically Lightweight Abstraction, Realism and Objectivity, Matera, September (invited)

- Reference and Invariance in Abstraction Principles, CLMPS, Helsinki, August (contributed)

- Metaphysically Lightweight Abstraction, Workshop in Philosophy of Logic, University of Padua, Italy, May (invited)

- Reference and Invariance in Abstraction Principles, Logic Colloquium, University of Connecticut, USA, February (invited)

- On the existence and identity of Fregean abstracta, Center for the Advancement of Logic, its Philosophy, History and Applications, University of California Irvine, USA, January (invited)

- Reference and Invariance in Abstraction Principles (I and II), Philosophy Department, UC Davis, January (invited)

2014

- Reference, Individuation, and Abstraction, ECAP 2014, Bucharest, September (contributed)

- Reference, Individuation, and Abstraction, SIFA 2014, L’Aquila, September (contributed)

- A Theory of Fregean Concepts and Objects, SILFS 2014, Rome, June (contributed)

- On the Logicality of Frege’s Definition of Domains of Magnitudes (with Marco Panza), Frege and Neo-Fregeanism, IHPST, Paris, June (invited)

- A Theory of Fregean Concepts and Objects, PPP workshop on Abstraction: Philosophy and Mathematics, University of Oslo, May (contributed)

- A Theory of Fregean Concepts and Objects, workshop on Abstractionism and Neologicism, UConn Logic group, University of Connecticut, April (invited)

2013

- A Plural Approach to Frege’s Logicism, Logic, Language, and Science Colloquium Series, August, Ohio State University (invited)

- Per una teoria degli oggetti astratti fregeani, Cogito seminar, May, University of Bologna (invited)

- A Theory of Fregean Abstract Objects, Workshop on Intensionality in Mathematics, May, Lunds Universitet (invited)

2012

- The Logicality of Plural Logic, Workshop on Philosophy of Logic, December, University of Padua (with M. Carrara & E. Martino) – (invited)

- Towards a Notion of Grounded Reference, November, PPP Seminar, University of Oslo

- Grounding (Ideal) Reference, October, Groundedness: Semantics and Beyond, MCMP, Munich (invited)

- Frege’s Grundgesetze and a Reassessment of Impredicativity, September, Filosofia della matematica: dalla logica alla pratica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (contributed)

- Frege’s Grundgesetze and a Reassessment of Impredicativity, June, Department Seminar, Philosophy Dept. University of Bristol, UK (invited)

- Logicismo plurale, June, Philosophy Departement, University of Siena, Italy (invited)

- Frege’s Grundgesetze and a Reassessment of Impredicativity, May, Lunchtime Seminars Series, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, London, UK (invited)

(Agg. luglio 2022)

Articoli in riviste e collettanee (selezione):

• “Plural Frege Arithmetic“, 2022, Philosophia Scientiae, 26(1): 189-206.

• “Origins and Varieties of Logicism: An Overview” (with A. Sereni), 2021, in F. Boccuni & A. Sereni (eds.), Origins and Varieties of Logicism. On the logico-philosophical foundations of mathematics, Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics

• “Frege’s Theory of Real Numbers: A Consistent Rendering” (with M. Panza), 2021, The Review of Symbolic Logic, 1-42. doi:10.1017/S175502032000026X

• “Logica plurale“, 2020, APhEx, 22 – in Italian

• “Structuralist Neologicism” (with J. Woods), 2020, Philosophia Mathematica. DOI: 10.1093/philmat/nky017

• “Reference in Formal Semantics and Natural Language: A Methodological Route“, 2018, Phenomenology and Mind, 15: 24-35

• (with S. Bacin), “Introduction: Methods of Philosophy“, 2018, Phenomenology and Mind, 15: 10-13

• Introduction (with A. Sereni), 2016, in F. Boccuni & A. Sereni (eds.), Philosophy of Mathematics: Objectivity, Realism and Proof (Boston Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Springer), 2016

• “The Logicality of Second-Order Logic. An Analysis in Terms of Plural Arbitrary Reference and Acts of Choice” (with M. Carrara and E. Martino), 2016, in M. Carrara, A. Arapinis, F. Moltmann, Unity and Plurality. Philosophy, Logic, and Semantics, OUP. Review 1; review 2; review 3

• “Frege’s Grundgesetze and a Reassessment of Predicativity”, 2015, in G. Lolli, M. Panza, G. Venturi (Eds.), From Logic to Practice: Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Springer, 2014

• “Minimal Logicism“, 2014, Philosophia Scientiae, 18(3): 81-94

• “Plural Logicism“, 2013, Erkenntnis, 78(5): 1051-1067

• “On the Consistency of a Plural Theory of Frege’s Grundgesetze”, 2011, Studia Logica, 97(3): 329-345

• “Profili: Gottlob Frege“, 2011, APhEx, 3 (in Italian)

• “Plural Grundgesetze“, 2010, Studia Logica, 96(2): 315-330

• (et al.), The Reasoner. Key Terms in Logic, 2010, J. Williamson and F. Russo (Eds.), Continuum Books. Entries: Abstractxion; Axiom; Cardinality; Classes; Coherence; Consistency; Contradiction; Domain; Extension; Intension; Interpretation; Logical Form; Logical Function; Metalanguage; Negation; Propositional Variable

• “Matematica”, in M. Ferraris (Ed.) Storia dell’ontologia, Bompiani, 2008: 558-580 (in Italian)

• “Mathematics and Cognition: Some Objections to a Cognitive Foundation for Mathematics”, in J. Sķilters, F. Toccafondi et al. (Eds.), The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Complex Cognition and Qualitative Science. A Legacy of Oswald Külpe, vol. 2, University of Latvia, Riga, 2007, pp. 115-136

(Agg. luglio 2022)