Departing from Frege

Departing from Frege
Author: Mark Sainsbury
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134483945

Frege is now regarded as one of the world's greatest philosophers, and the founder of modern logic. Mark Sainsbury argues that we must depart considerably from Frege's views if we are to work towards an adequate conception of natural language. This is an outstanding contribution to philosophy of language and logic and will be invaluable to all those interested in Frege and the philosophy of language.

Departing from Frege

Departing from Frege
Author: Mark Sainsbury
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134483953

This text takes Frege's work as a point of departure, but argues that we must depart considerably from Frege's own views if we are to work towards an adequate conception of natural language.

Frege

Frege
Author: Michael Dummett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1991
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780674319356

No one has figured more prominently in the study of the German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett. His magisterial Frege: Philosophy of Language is a sustained, systematic analysis of Frege's thought, omitting only the issues in philosophy of mathematics. In this work Dummett discusses, section by section, Frege's masterpiece The Foundations of Arithmetic and Frege's treatment of real numbers in the second volume of Basic Laws of Arithmetic, establishing what parts of the philosopher's views can be salvaged and employed in new theorizing, and what must be abandoned, either as incorrectly argued or as untenable in the light of technical developments. Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher whose work had enormous impact on Bertrand Russell and later on the young Ludwig Wittgenstein, making Frege one of the central influences on twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy; he is considered the founder of analytic philosophy. His philosophy of mathematics contains deep insights and remains a useful and necessary point of departure for anyone seriously studying or working in the field.

Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed

Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed
Author: Edward Kanterian
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0826487645

A guide to the thought and ideas of Gottlob Frege, one of the most important but also perplexing figures in the history of analytic philosophy.

Gottlob Frege: Frege's philosophy in context

Gottlob Frege: Frege's philosophy in context
Author: Michael Beaney
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415306027

This collection brings together recent scholarship on Frege, including new translations of German material which is made available to Anglophone scholars for the first time.

From Frege to Wittgenstein

From Frege to Wittgenstein
Author: Erich H. Reck
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2001-12-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198030533

Analytic philosophy--arguably one of the most important philosophical movements in the twentieth century--has gained a new historical self-consciousness, particularly about its own origins. Between 1880 and 1930, the most important work of its founding figures (Frege, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein) not only gained attention but flourished. In this collection, fifteen previously unpublished essays explore different facets of this period, with an emphasis on the vital intellectual relationship between Frege and the early Wittgenstein.

Sense, Reference, and Philosophy

Sense, Reference, and Philosophy
Author: Jerrold J. Katz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0195343719

Sense, Reference, and Philosophy develops the far-reaching consequences for philosophy of adopting non-Fregean intensionalism, showing that long-standing problems in the philosophy of language, and indeed other areas, that appeared intractable can now be solved. Katz proceeds to examine some of those problems in this new light, including the problem of names, natural kind terms, the Liar Paradox, the distinction between logical and extra-logical vocabulary, and the Raven paradox. In each case, a non-Fregean intentionalism provides a philosophically more satisfying solution.

Fixing Frege

Fixing Frege
Author: John P. Burgess
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005-07-25
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780691122311

Gottlob Frege's attempt to found mathematics on a grand logical system came to grief when Bertrand Russell discovered a contradiction in it. This book surveys consistent restrictions in both the old and new versions of Frege's system, determining just how much of mathematics can be reconstructed in each.

The Philosophy of J. L. Austin

The Philosophy of J. L. Austin
Author: Martin Gustafsson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2011-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199219753

This is the first major study of J. L. Austin's philosophy in decades. Leading philosophers show the relevance of his work to current debates including scepticism and contextualism, the epistemology of testimony, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction. They demonstrate why Austin's work is of continuing value and interest to philosophers today

The Metaphysics of Gottlob Frege

The Metaphysics of Gottlob Frege
Author: E.H.W Kluge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401733872

Die Sprachen sind nicht nach dem logischen Lineal gemacht. (Briefwechsel, p. 102) If success in solving problems is the hallmark of philosophical great ness, then Frege was not a great philosopher. But by that same token, very few if any other figure in the history of philosophy will qualify. On the other hand, if the hallmark of philosophical great ness is the opening up of new conceptual territory and the raising of hitherto unsuspected crucial questions, the shifting of philosophical perspectiv~ and the determination of subsequent lines of enquiry, then Frege must rank among the greatest philosophers of all times. He was the first to develop a completely formalized language and a logical system sufficiently powerful to generate arithmetic; he opened up the fields of philosophy of logic and arithmetic; his theses on sense reference and definition were seminal to almost all subse quent work done in the philosophy oflanguage; and his ontological speculations constituted the foundation of one of the most profound metaphysics ever developed: that of Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Tractatus.