Frege

Frege
Author: Charles Travis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192582437

This book is about Gottlob Frege. The guiding thought is that Frege left philosophy a legacy which has been largely ignored, not least of all by his admirers. In order of logical priority, Frege's first concern was to locate the law-like behaviour of truths and falsehoods merely by virtue of their being such (in his terms, the structure of Wahrsein). The just-mentioned legacy lies in his first step towards that goal. It consists in winnowing the 'logical' from the 'psychological', the business of being true as such from that of holding, or holding forth as true-and to keep these separate. A first lesson: what belongs to what is thus abstracted cannot be read directly back into what it was abstracted from. This is what is most widely ignored. The book is divided in three parts. The first presents Frege's general picture of the business of being true-of what belongs to the abstraction. The second is primarily concerned with steps Frege takes (in print) between 1891 and 1895, to pave the way for what became, after logic itself, his central project, that whose attempted carrying out is contained in Grundgesetze I. The third part concerns views of logic, truth, the inexorableness of logic, which Frege eventually came to hold, and what it might be to study 'The Mind' as opposed to minds.

Objectivity and the Parochial

Objectivity and the Parochial
Author: Charles Travis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199596212

Charles Travis investigates a central problem in philosophy, one of the most puzzling. Thought must be about a world independent of us. But our capacities for thought shape thought's objects. So it can seem that what is true, and what is not, cannot be independent of us. Objectivity and the Parochial suggests how we might resolve this paradox.

The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God

The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God
Author: Sameer Yadav
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2015
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451499736

Based on the author's thesis (Th. D.)--Duke Divinity School, 2014, titled: The problem of perception and the perception of God: John McDowell and the theology of religious experience.