Cambridge Companion to Frege

Informationen zum Autor Tom Ricketts is Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburgh University. He is the author of numerous articles on the development of analytic philosophy, especially Frege, Wittgenstein and Carnap. Michael Potter is a Reader in the Philosophy of Mathematics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He is the author of Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic (2009), Set Theory and its Philosophy (2004) and Reason's Nearest Kin (2000). Klappentext Offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the scope and importance of Gottlob Frege's work. Zusammenfassung 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. This volume offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the scope and importance of his work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Note on translations; Chronology; 1. Introduction Michael Potter; 2. Understanding Frege's project Joan Weiner; 3. Frege's conception of logic Warren Goldfarb; 4. Dummett's Frege Peter Sullivan; 5. What is a predicate? Alex Oliver; 6. Concepts, objects, and the context principle Thomas Ricketts; 7. Sense and reference Michael Kremer; 8. On sense and reference: a critical reception William Taschek; 9. Frege and semantics Richard Heck; 10. Frege's mathematical setting Mark Wilson; 11. Frege and Hilbert Michael Hallett; 12. Frege's folly Peter Milne; 13. Frege and Russell Peter Hylton; 14. Inheriting from Frege: the work of reception, as Wittgenstein did it Cora Diamond.

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• Authors: Tom Ricketts, Tom (University of Pittsburgh) Potter Ricketts, Tom Potter Ricketts
• Assisted by: Michael Potter (Editor), Michael (University of Cambridge) Potter (Editor), Tom Ricketts (Editor), Tom (University of Pittsburgh) Ricketts (Editor), Ricketts Tom (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521624282
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62428-2
• No. of pages: 660
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philos; Cambridge Companions to Philosophy; Cambridge Companions to Philos
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mathematics, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism