Frege and other philosophers

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Frege and other philosophers

Michael Dummett

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1996, c1991

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"First published 1991. First issued as paperback 1996"--T.p. verso

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The ideas of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege lie at the root of the analytic movement in philosophy; Michael Dummett is his leading modern critical interpreter and one of today's most eminent philosophers. This volume collects together fifteen of Dummett's classic essays on Frege and related subjects.

Table of Contents

  • Frege on the consistency of mathematical theories
  • Frege and the paradox of analysis
  • On a question of Frege's about right-ordered groups (With S. A. Adeleke and P. M. Neumann)
  • Frege's 'Kernsatze zur Logik'
  • Frege as a realist
  • Objectivity and reality in Lotze and Frege
  • Frege and Kant on geometry
  • An unsuccessful dig
  • Second thoughts
  • Which end of the telescope?
  • Frege and Wittgenstein
  • Frege's myth of the third realm
  • Thought and perception: the views of two philosophical innovators
  • More about thoughts
  • The relative priority of thought and language
  • Appendix: Writings on Frege by Michael Dummett
  • Index.

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