Frege synthesized : essays on the philosophical and foundational work of Gottlob Frege

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Frege synthesized : essays on the philosophical and foundational work of Gottlob Frege

edited by Leila Haaparanta and Jaakko Hintikka

(Synthese library, v. 181)

D. Reidel, c1986

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cake, even though it is typically given the pride of place in expositions in Frege's semantics. As a part of this attempted reversal of emphasis, Jaakko Hintikka has also called attention to the role Frege played in convincing almost everyone that verbs for being had to be treated as multiply ambiguous between the "is" of identity, the "is" of predication, the "is" of existence, and the "is" of class-inclusion - a view that had been embraced by few major figures (if any) before Frege, with the exception of John Stuart Mill and Augustus De Morgan. Hintikka has gone on to challenge this ambiguity thesis. At the same time, Frege's role in the genesis of another major twentieth-century philosophical movement, the phenomenological one, has become an important issue. Even the translation of Frege's key term "Bedeutung" as "reference" has become controversial. The interpretation of Frege is thus thrown largely back in the melting pot. In editing this volume, we have not tried to publish the last word on Frege. Even though we may harbor such ambitions ourselves, they are not what has led to the present editorial enterprise. What we have tried to do is to bring together some of the best ongoing work on Frege. Even though the ultimate judgment on our success lies with out readers, we want to register our satisfaction with all the contributions.

Table of Contents

I Introduction.- General Introduction.- Putting Frege in Perspective.- II Semantics and Epistemology.- Frege and Vagueness.- Semantic Content and Cognitive Sense.- Objectivity and Objecthood: Frege's Metaphysics of Judgment.- Frege on Truth.- Frege on Existence.- III Logical Theory.- Frege's Proof of Referentiality.- Frege, Russell and Logicism: A Logical Reconstruction.- Frege's Technical Concepts: Some Recent Developments.- IV Philosophy of Mathematics.- Frege, Dedekind, and the Philosophy of Mathematics.- Continuity and Change in Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics.- Grundgesetze, Section 10.- Index Of Names.- Index Of Subjects.

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  • NCID
    BA00361749
  • ISBN
    • 9027721262
  • LCCN
    86006523
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Dordrecht ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 395 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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