Frege''s Notations - What They Are and How They Mean

A new approach to reading Frege's notations that adheres to the modern view that terms and well-formed formulas are any disjoint syntactic categories. On this new approach, we can at last read Frege's notations in their original form revealing striking new solutions to many of the outstanding problems of interpreting his philosophy.

List of contents

Series Editor's Foreword Preface Author's Note on the Use of Modern Logical Notations Abbreviations of Works by Gottlob Frege Introduction Frege's Basic Logics (without Wertverlaüfe ) The Ancestral Wertverlaüfe Analysis and Recomposition Engaging Problems References Further Reading Index

About the author

GREGORY LANDINI Professor at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of Russell (2010), Wittgenstein's Apprentice with Russell (2007) and Russell's Hidden SubstitutionalTheory (1998). He has published articles in the philosophy of logic and metaphysics. His teaching and research interests include modal logic, the foundations of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.

Summary

A new approach to reading Frege's notations that adheres to the modern view that terms and well-formed formulas are any disjoint syntactic categories. On this new approach, we can at last read Frege's notations in their original form revealing striking new solutions to many of the outstanding problems of interpreting his philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Beaney, G. Landini, Gregor Landini, Gregory Landini, Gregory Beaney Landini
• Assisted by: Michae Beaney (Editor), Michael Beaney (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9781349320257
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32025-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: History of Analytic Philosophy; History of Analytic Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Logic, Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophie: Logik, Mathematics—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy: logic, Early Modern Philosophy