Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Frege on Sense and Reference

Informationen zum Autor Mark Textor is a lecturer in philosophy at King's College London! UK. His main interests are in logic and metaphysics! epistemology! philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy. He is editor of the The Austrian Contribution to Analytic Philosophy! also published by Routledge (2006). Klappentext Gottlob Frege is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. This work introduces and assesses: Frege's life and the background to his philosophy; Frege's papers and arguments! including his distinction between sense and reference; the importance of Frege's work to philosophy of logic and language. Zusammenfassung Gottlob Frege is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. His writings are difficult and deal with technical, asbtract concepts. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Frege On Sense and Reference helps the student to get to grips with Frege's thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Searching for the Foundations of Arithmetic 2. The Begriffsschrift and its Philosophical Background 3. From Subject and Predicate to Argument and Function 4. Splitting up Conceptual Content into Sense and Reference 5. The Sense and Reference of Natural Language Singular Terms 6. The Sense and Reference of an Assertoric Sentence 7. The Sense and Reference of a Concept-Word Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Mark Textor, Mark (King's College London Textor, Mark (King''s College London Textor, Textor Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.2010
• EAN: 9780415419611
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41961-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks; Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy: logic