Logicism and the philosophy of language : selections from Frege and Russell
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Logicism and the philosophy of language : selections from Frege and Russell
Broadview Press, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-298)
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Description
Logicism and the Philosophy of Language brings together the core works by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell on logic and language. In their separate efforts to clarify mathematics through the use of logic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Frege and Russell both recognized the need for rigorous and systematic semantic analysis of language. It was their turn to this style of analysis that would establish the philosophy of language as an autonomous area of inquiry. This anthology gathers together these foundational writings, and frames them with an extensive historical introduction. This is a collection for anyone interested in questions about truth, meaning, reference, and logic, and in the application of formal analysis to these concepts.
Table of Contents
Preface
Notes on the Selections
Introduction
Overview
Philosophical Background
Prevalent Ideas about Semantics in Modern Philosophy
A Sketch of Kant's Philosophy
Three Strands in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
The Logicist Thesis
The Foundations of Mathematics
Frege's Program
Russell's Rediscovery of Logicism
Philosophical Logic
Modern Logic
Function and Argument
Analysis of Language as Philosophical Method
Some Disputed Issues in Early Analytic Philosophy
Meaning: Semantic Monism and Semantic Dualism
Logical Form: On Denoting
Philosophy of Logic
The Legacy of Logicism
Works Cited
Works of Gottlob Frege
Conceptual Notation (1879), Preface and Chapter 1
On the Scientific Justification of a Conceptual Notation (1882)
On the Aim of the "Conceptual Notation" (1882)
The Foundations of Arithmetic (1884), Introduction
Function and Concept (1891)
On Concept and Object (1892)
On Sense and Reference (1892)
What is a Function? (1904)
The Thought: A Logical Inquiry (1918)
Works of Bertrand Russell
Mathematics and the Metaphysicians (1901)
On Denoting (1905)
Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description (1911)
Logic as the Essence of Philosophy (1914)
Descriptions (1919)
Mathematics and Logic (1919)
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