Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Frege on Sense and Reference

ISBN-13: 9780415419611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 304 str.

Mark Textor

Opis

Gottlob Frege is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. He was firstly a mathematician but his major works, including Conception and Notation, also made significant conceptual contributions to the philosophy of language. Frege's writings are difficult and deal with technical, asbtract concepts. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Frege On Sense and Reference helps the student to get to grips with Frege's thought, and introduces and assesses:

Frege's life and the background to his philosophy

Frege's main papers and arguments, including his distinction between sense and reference

the continuing importance of Frege's work to philosophy of logic and language

Ideal for those coming to Frege for the first time, this Guidebook is essential reading for students of philosophy of language and logic.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Searching for the Foundations of Arithmetic  2. The Begriffsschrift and its Philosophical Background  3. From Subject and Predicate to Argument and Function  4. Splitting up Conceptual Content into Sense and Reference  5. The Sense and Reference of Natural Language Singular Terms  6. The Sense and Reference of an Assertoric Sentence  7. The Sense and Reference of a Concept-Word  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Mark Textor is a lecturer in philosophy at King's College London, UK. His main interests are in logic and metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy. He is editor of the The Austrian Contribution to Analytic Philosophy, also published by Routledge (2006).