Frege and other philosophers / Michael Dummett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dummett, Michael, 1925-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925.

Frege, Gottlob.

Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ideas of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege lie at the root of the analytic movement in philosophy; Michael Dummett is his leading modern critical interpreter and one of today's most eminent philosophers. This volume collects together fifteen of Dummett's classic essays on Frege and related subjects.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Frege on the Consistency of Mathematical Theories

2. Frege and the Paradox of Analysis

3. On a Question of Frege's about Right-Ordered Groups (with S. A. Adeleke and P. M. Neumann)

4. Frege's 'Kernsätze zur Logik'

5. Frege as a Realist

6. Objectivity and Reality in Lotze and Frege

7. Frege and Kant on Geometry

8. An Unsuccessful Dig

9. Second Thoughts

10. Which End of the Telescope?

11. Frege and Wittgenstein

12. Frege's Myth of the Third Realm

13. Thought and Perception: The Views of Two Philosophical Innovators

14. More about Thoughts

15. The Relative Priority of Thought and Language

Appendix: Writings on Frege by Michael Dummett

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-98109-5

9786611981099

0-19-152005-5

OCLC:

57592070