Frege - The Pure Business of Being True

This is a book about Frege, his contribution to philosophy in general, thus his claim to be a great philosopher. It concerns truth, thought (the thinkable), logic (the most general structure of truth and falsehood), the relation of logic to what thinkers think, and, to a small extent, the space between the notions human being and rational being.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: In the Beginning


• 2: Concepts


• 3: Objecthood


• 4: Thought's Publicity


• 5: Bedeutung


• 6: Sinn


• 7: Concept and Object


• 8: Truth


• 9: Logic


• 10: At the Limits: World and Mind Dependence


• Bibliography

About the author

Charles Travis started in Philosophy from Mathematics in 1962 at Berkeley where he took up his first position. He was awarded his doctorate from UCLA in 1967, and went on to work at the University of North Carolina. He later became a professor at Stirling in Scotland, then at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois, then at King's College London.

Summary

This is a book about Frege, his contribution to philosophy in general, thus his claim to be a great philosopher. It concerns truth, thought (the thinkable), logic (the most general structure of truth and falsehood), the relation of logic to what thinkers think, and, to a small extent, the space between the notions human being and rational being.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Travis, Charles (Adject Professor Travis, Travis Charles
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2021
• EAN: 9780198844129
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884412-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: logic, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism