Joan Weiner

Taking Frege at His Word

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780198865476
• ISBN-10: 0198865473
• Artikelnr.: 59909503

Autorenporträt

Joan Weiner is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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