Taking Frege At His Word

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.

List of contents

• Translations, Citations and Abbreviations


• Representations of Frege's Logical Symbols


• PART I: Natural Language and Theories of Meaning


• 1: Language and the Standard Interpretation


• 2: Frege's New Logic and the Function/Argument Regimentation


• Part II: Metaphysics and the Standard Interpretation


• 3: Metaphysics and the Standard Interpretation


• Part III: Metatheory and the Standard Interpretation


• 4: Soundness, Epistemology, and Frege's Project


• 5: Reference, The Context Principle and the Significance of Sentential Priority


• 6: The Context Principle, Sentential Priority, and the Pursuit of Truth


• Part IV: Putting Frege's Lessons to Work


• 7: Why Frege's Apparently Absurd View is not Absurd at All


• 8: Mathematical Knowledge and Sentential vs. Subsentential Priority


• Bibliography

About the author

Joan Weiner is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University.

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.

Additional text

offers an important correction to conclusions that one may be too willing to draw about Frege ... useful to anyone interested in the history of analytic philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Weiner , Joan Weiner, Joan (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Weiner, Weiner Joan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780198865476
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886547-6
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Mathematical logic, Philosophy: logic