The Cambridge companion to Frege / edited by Michael Potter and Tom Ricketts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ricketts, Tom.

Potter, Michael D.

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925.

Frege, Gottlob.

Physical Description:

xvii, 639 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Summary:

"Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic but also had to address fundamental questions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Frege is generally seen (along with Russell and Wittgenstein) as one of the fathers of the analytic method, which dominated philosophy in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century. His work is studied today not just for its historical importance but also because many of his ideas are still seen as relevant to current debates in the philosophies of logic, language, mathematics and the mind. The Cambridge Companion to Frege provides a route into this lively area of research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Potter

Understanding Frege's project / Joan Weiner

Frege's conception of logic / Warren Goldfarb

Dummett's Frege / Peter Sullivan

What is a predicate? / Alex Oliver

Concepts, objects, and the context principle / Thomas Ricketts

Sense and reference / Michael Kremer

On sense and reference: a critical reception / William Taschek

Frege and semantics / Richard Heck

Frege's mathematical setting / Mark Wilson

Frege and Hilbert / Michael Hallett

Frege's folly / Peter Milne

Frege and Russell / Peter Hylton

Inheriting from Frege: the work of reception, as Wittgenstein did it / Cora Diamond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521624282

0521624282

9780521624794

0521624797

OCLC:

502097539

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