The Philosophy Of Gottlob Frege

Author : Richard L. Mendelsohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
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Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139444034

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The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege by Richard L. Mendelsohn Pdf

This analysis of Frege's views on language and metaphysics in On Sense and Reference, arguably one of the most important philosophical essays of the past hundred years, provides a thorough introduction to the function/argument analysis and applies Frege's technique to the central notions of predication, identity, existence and truth. Of particular interest is the analysis of the Paradox of Identity and a discussion of three solutions: the little-known Begriffsschrift solution, the sense/reference solution, and Russell's 'On Denoting' solution. Russell's views wend their way through the work, serving as a foil to Frege. Appendices give the proofs of the first 68 propositions of Begriffsschrift in modern notation. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in philosophy and linguistics.

Author : Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317188568

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A Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Gottlob Frege by Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock Pdf

Gottlob Frege is one of the greatest logicians ever and also a philosopher of great significance. In this book Rosado Haddock offers a critical presentation of the main topics of Frege's philosophy, including, among others, his philosophy of arithmetic, his sense-referent distinction, his distinction between function and object, and his criticisms of formalism and psychologism. More than just an introduction to Frege's philosophy this book is also a highly critical and mature assessment of it as a whole in which the limitations, confusions and other weaknesses of Frege's thought are closely examined. The author is also a Husserlian scholar and this book contains valuable discussions of Husserl's neglected views and comparisons between the two great philosophers.

Author : Gottlob Frege
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : College student development programs
ISBN : PSU:000008707246

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Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege by Gottlob Frege Pdf

Author : Michael Beaney,Erich H. Reck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 458 pages
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Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415306027

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Gottlob Frege: Frege's philosophy in context by Michael Beaney,Erich H. Reck Pdf

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.

Author : Joan Weiner
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812697520

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Frege Explained by Joan Weiner Pdf

What is the number one? How can we be sure that 2+2=4? These apparently ssimple questions have perplexed philosophers for thousands of years, but discussion of them was transformed by the German philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848-1925). Frege (pronounced Fray-guh)believed that arithmetic and all mathematics are derived from logic, and to prove this he developed a completely new approach to logic and numbers. Joan Weiner presents a very clear outline of Frege's life and ideas, showing how his thinking evolved through successive books and articles.

Author : William Demopoulos
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 492 pages
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Release : 1995
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674319427

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Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics by William Demopoulos Pdf

Widespread interest in Frege's general philosophical writings is, relatively speaking, a fairly recent phenomenon. But it is only very recently that his philosophy of mathematics has begun to attract the attention it now enjoys. This interest has been elicited by the discovery of the remarkable mathematical properties of Frege's contextual definition of number and of the unique character of his proposals for a theory of the real numbers. This collection of essays addresses three main developments in recent work on Frege's philosophy of mathematics: the emerging interest in the intellectual background to his logicism; the rediscovery of Frege's theorem; and the reevaluation of the mathematical content of The Basic Laws of Arithmetic. Each essay attempts a sympathetic, if not uncritical, reconstruction, evaluation, or extension of a facet of Frege's theory of arithmetic. Together they form an accessible and authoritative introduction to aspects of Frege's thought that have, until now, been largely missed by the philosophical community.

Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674319354

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Frege by Michael Dummett Pdf

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.

Author : L. Haaparanta,Jaakko Hintikka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
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Release : 1986-04-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9027721262

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Frege Synthesized by L. Haaparanta,Jaakko Hintikka Pdf

cake, even though it is typically given the pride of place in expositions in Frege's semantics. As a part of this attempted reversal of emphasis, Jaakko Hintikka has also called attention to the role Frege played in convincing almost everyone that verbs for being had to be treated as multiply ambiguous between the "is" of identity, the "is" of predication, the "is" of existence, and the "is" of class-inclusion - a view that had been embraced by few major figures (if any) before Frege, with the exception of John Stuart Mill and Augustus De Morgan. Hintikka has gone on to challenge this ambiguity thesis. At the same time, Frege's role in the genesis of another major twentieth-century philosophical movement, the phenomenological one, has become an important issue. Even the translation of Frege's key term "Bedeutung" as "reference" has become controversial. The interpretation of Frege is thus thrown largely back in the melting pot. In editing this volume, we have not tried to publish the last word on Frege. Even though we may harbor such ambitions ourselves, they are not what has led to the present editorial enterprise. What we have tried to do is to bring together some of the best ongoing work on Frege. Even though the ultimate judgment on our success lies with out readers, we want to register our satisfaction with all the contributions.

Author : Gottlob Frege
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1414600286

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Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege by Gottlob Frege Pdf

Author : Michael Beaney,Erich H. Reck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415306043

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Gottlob Frege: Frege's philosophy of mathematics by Michael Beaney,Erich H. Reck Pdf

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.

Author : E.H.W Kluge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401733878

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The Metaphysics of Gottlob Frege by E.H.W Kluge Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674319311

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Frege by Michael Dummett Pdf

No one has figured more prominently in the study of German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett. This highly acclaimed book is a major contribution to the philosophy of language as well as a systematic interpretation of Frege, indisputably the father of analytic philosophy. Frege: Philosophy of Language remains indispensable for an understanding of contemporary philosophy. Harvard University Press is pleased to reissue this classic book in paperback.

Author : John Biro,P. Kotatko
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401104111

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Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later by John Biro,P. Kotatko Pdf

Gottlob Frege's Über Sinn und Bedeutung (`On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of Frege's writings on logic and mathematics, came to mark out a whole new domain of inquiry. This volume bears witness to the continuing importance and influence of that agenda. It contains original papers written by leading Frege scholars for the conference held in 1992 in Karlovy Vary to celebrate the publication of Frege's essay. The fourteen essays show how the questions Frege discusses in that essay connect intimately with issues much debated in current philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Author : Michael Beaney,Erich H. Reck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415306035

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Gottlob Frege: Frege's philosophy of logic by Michael Beaney,Erich H. Reck Pdf

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.

Author : Joan Weiner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501714955

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Frege in Perspective by Joan Weiner Pdf

Not only can the influence of Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) be found in contemporary work in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of language, but his projects—and the very terminology he employed in pursuing those projects—are still current in contemporary philosophy. This is undoubtedly why it seems so reasonable to assume that we can read Frege' s writings as if he were one of us, speaking to our philosophical concerns in our language. In Joan Weiner's view, however, Frege's words can be accurately interpreted only if we set that assumption aside. Weiner here offers a challenging new approach to the philosophy of this central figure in analytic philosophy. Weiner finds in Frege's corpus, from Begriffsschrift (1879) on, a unified project of remarkable ambition to which each of the writings in that corpus makes a distinct contribution—a project whose motivation she brings to life through a careful reading of his Foundations of Arithmetic. The Frege that Weiner brings into clear view is very different from the familiar figure. Far from having originated one of the standard positions on the nature of reference, Frege turns out not to have had positive doctrines on anything like what contemporary philosophers mean by "reference." Far from having served as a standard-bearer for those who take the realists' side of contemporary disputes with anti-realists, Frege turns out to have had no stake in either side of the controversy. Through Weiner's lens, Frege emerges as a thinker who has principled reasons for challenging the very assumptions and motivations that animate philosophers to dispute these doctrines. This lucidly written and accessible book will generate controversy among all readers with an interest in epistemology, philosophy of language, history of philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics.