Taking Frege at his word / Joan Weiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiner, Joan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925--Criticism and interpretation.

Frege, Gottlob.

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This study offers a new interpretation of the writings of Gottlob Frege. It advances our understanding of the history of analytic philosophy, and shows that Frege's writings have important significance for the way we should approach contemporary problems concerning language, logic, and mathematics.

Contents:

Part 1. Natural Language and Theories of Meaning : Language and the Standard Interpretation

Frege's New Logic and the Function/Argument Regimentation

Part 2. Metaphysics and the Standard Interpretation : Metaphysics and the Standard Interpretation

Part 3. Metatheory and the Standard Interpretation : Soundness, Epistemology, and Frege's Project

Reference, the Context Principle, and the Significance of Sentential Priority

The Context Principle, Sentential Priority, and the Pursuit of Truth

Part 4. Putting Frege's Lessons to Work : Why Frege's Apparently Absurd View Is not Absurd at All

Mathematical Knowledge and Sentential vs. Subsentential Priority.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-263485-2

0-19-189783-3

0-19-263484-4