Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Frege's logic
- 2 The separation of the psychological from the logical
- 3 To break the power of words over the human mind
- 4 The thought
- 5 The reference of sentences
- 6 Judgement and knowledge
- 7 The reference and sense of names
- 8 Frege's contributions to epistemology
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Frege's logic
- 2 The separation of the psychological from the logical
- 3 To break the power of words over the human mind
- 4 The thought
- 5 The reference of sentences
- 6 Judgement and knowledge
- 7 The reference and sense of names
- 8 Frege's contributions to epistemology
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It will be generally agreed that Frege's thought had a remarkable impact on the philosophy of the twentieth century, although how to evaluate his significance is controversial. Among his current interpreters there is strong disagreement about what kind of philosophy he was advocating, as can be seen from the variety of labels that have been attached to him, ranging from “analytic philosopher”, “rationalist” and “neokantian” to “platonist” or even “neopythagorean”. One of the major reasons for this disagreement, I think, is that most accounts of Frege's philosophy concentrate on only a few of the issues he raises in his philosophical papers. This approach results from the way he published his contributions to philosophy. Although he wrote books on logic and mathematics, his major contributions to philosophy are to be found in the many articles and reviews he published in various philosophical journals. At the end of his life he started to publish a sequence of articles that was to contain all his major philosophical ideas, but the project remained a torso. We know, however, from his Posthumous Writings that he worked at it from the beginning of the 1880s and that he wrote several drafts of this project called “Logic” before he started to publish the unfinished sequence entitled Logical Investigations.
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- Frege's Theory of Sense and ReferenceIts Origin and Scope, pp. 1 - 4Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994