Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) taught at the University of Jena for thirty years, and was scarcely known outside a small circle of professional mathematicians and philosophers. However, later in the twentieth century he came to be recognized as someone who, in demonstrating the affinity of logic with mathematics, laid the foundations for modern philosophy of language and modern logic.
Frege regarded logic as the foundation for philosophy. In doing so, he instigated a radical change in the stance of the majority of Western philosophers whose main pre-occupation since Descartes had been the nature of knowledge rather than logic. His influence can be clearly seen in the work of local positivists of the early twentieth century, as well as in much of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy. This impressive collection brings together recent scholarship on Frege, including new translations of German material, made available to Anglophone scholars for the first time.
Volume I: Frege’s Philosophy in Context
Preface
Acknowledgements
Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, ‘General Introduction: Principles of Selection and Organisation’
Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, ‘Frege’s Philosophy in Context: Introduction to Volume I’
Part One: Frege’s Life and Work
(1) Christian Thiel and Michael Beaney, ‘Frege’s Life and Work: Chronology and Bibliography’
(2) Uwe Dathe, ‘Frege in Jena: Academic Contacts and Intellectual Influences’ translated by Uwe Dathe and Michael Beany
(3) Kai F. Wehmeier and Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, ‘The Quest for Frege’s Nachlass’, translation of ‘Auf der Suche nach Freges Nachlaß’, in G. Gabriel and U. Dathe, eds., Gottlob Frege – Werk und Wirkung, Paderborn: mentis, 2000, pp. 267-81, translated by Kai F. Wehmeier
Part Two: Frege and Other Philosophers
(4) John MacFarlane, ‘Frege, Kant, and the Logic in Logicism’, Philosophical Review 111 (2002), pp. 25-65
(5) Gottfried Gabriel, ‘Existential and Number Statements: Herbart and Frege’, translation of ‘Existenz- und Zahlaussage. Herbart und Frege’, in A. Hoeschen and L. Schneider, eds., Herbarts Kultursystem, Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2001, pp. 149-62, translated by Christian Kaestner
(6) Wolfgang Künne, ‘Propositions in Bolzano and Frege’, in W. Künne, M. Siebel and M. Textor, eds., Bolzano and Analytic Philosophy, Grazer Philosophische Studien 53, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997, pp. 203-40
(7) Michael Dummett, ‘Comments on Wolfgang Künne’s Paper’, in W. Künne, M. Siebel and M. Textor, eds., Bolzano and Analytic Philosophy, Grazer Philosophische Studien 53, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997, pp. 241-8
(8) Gottfried Gabriel, ‘Frege, Lotze, and the Continental Roots of Early Analytic Philosophy’, in A. Newen, U. Nortmann and R. Stuhlmann-Laeisz, eds., Building on Frege: New Essays on Sense, Content, and Concept, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2001, pp. 19-33
(9) Volker Peckhaus, ‘Calculus ratiocinator versus characteristica universalis? The two traditions in logic, revisited’, History and Philosophy of Logic 25 (2004), pp. 3-14
(10) Michael Dummett, ‘Thought and Perception: The Views of Two Philosophical Innovators’, in D. Bell and N. Cooper, eds., The Analytic Tradition: Meaning, Thought, and Knowledge, Oxford: Blackwell, 1990, pp. 83-103
(11) Michael Beaney, ‘Frege, Russell and Logicism’, shortened and revised version of ‘Russell and Frege’, in N. Griffin, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Russell, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 128-70
(12) Erich H. Reck, ‘Frege’s Influence on Wittgenstein: Reversing Metaphysics via the Context Principle’, in W.W. Tait, ed., Early Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Chicago: Open Court, 1997, pp. 123-85, (revised and shortened by the author)
(13) Jan Wolenski, ‘The reception of Frege in Poland’, History and Philosophy of Logic 25 (2004), pp. 37-51
Part Three: Frege’s Epistemology and Metaphysics
(14) Thomas Ricketts, ‘Objectivity and Objecthood: Frege’s Metaphysics of Judgment’, in L. Haaparanta and J. Hintikka, eds., Frege Synthesized, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986, pp. 65-95
(15) Eva Picardi, ‘Frege’s Anti-Psychologism’, in M. Schirn, ed., Frege: Importance and Legacy, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996, pp. 307-29
(16) Gottfried Gabriel, ‘Frege’s “Epistemology in Disguise”’, in M. Schirn, ed., Frege: Importance and Legacy, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996, pp. 330-46
(17) Michael Kremer, ‘Judgment and Truth in Frege’, Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (2000), pp. 549-81
(18) Wolfgang Carl, ‘Frege – A Platonist or a Neo-Kantian?’, in A. Newen, U. Nortmann and R. Stuhlmann-Laeisz, eds., Building on Frege: New Essays on Sense, Content, and Concept, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2001, pp. 3-18
Volume II: Frege’s Philosophy of Logic
Acknowledgements
Erich H. Reck and Michael Beaney, ‘Frege’s Philosophy of Logic: Introduction to Volume II’
Part Four: Frege’s Logic
(19) Christian Thiel, ‘“Not arbitrarily and out of a craze for novelty”: The Begriffsschrift 1879 and 1893’, in I. Max and W. Stelzner, eds., Logik und Mathematik, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, pp. 20-37, translated by Christian Thiel
(20) Patricia Blanchette, ‘Frege and Hilbert on Consistency’, Journal of Philosophy 93 (1996), pp. 317-36
(21) Warren Goldfarb, ‘Frege’s Conception of Logic’, in J. Floyd and S. Shieh, eds., Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 25-41
(22) Gordon Baker, ‘Logical Operators in Begriffsschrift’
(23) Peter Sullivan, ‘Metaperspectives and Internalism in Frege’, extracted and revised from ‘Frege’s Logic’, in D. M. Gabbay and J. Woods, eds., Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol. 3, Elsevier, 2004, pp. 671-762
Part Five: Frege and Metalogic
(24) Jason Stanley, ‘Truth and Metatheory in Frege’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 77 (1996), pp. 45-70
(25) Thomas Ricketts, ‘Frege’s 1906 Foray into Metalogic’, Philosophical Topics 25, No. 2, ed. C. Hill (1998), pp. 169-88
(26) Aldo Antonelli and Robert May, ‘Frege’s New Science’, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 41 (2000), pp. 242-70
(27) Jamie Tappenden, ‘Metatheory and Mathematical Practice in Frege’, Philosophical Topics 25 (1997), pp. 213-64 (revised and shortened by the author)
Part Six: Logic and Truth
(28) Thomas Ricketts, ‘Logic and Truth in Frege’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol. 70 (1996), pp. 121-40
(29) James Levine, ‘Logic and Truth in Frege’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol. 70 (1996), pp. 141-75, (revised and shortened by the author)
(30) Hans Sluga, ‘Frege on the Indefinability of Truth’, in E. Reck, ed., From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 75-95
(31) Dirk Greimann, ‘Frege’s Understanding of Truth’, translation of ‘Freges Grundverständnis von Wahrheit’, in D. Greimann, ed., Das Wahre und das Falsche: Studien zu Freges Auffassung von Wahrheit, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2003, pp. 59-79, translated by Dirk Greimann.
Part Seven: Logic and Epistemology
(32) Tyler Burge, ‘Frege on Knowing the Foundations’, Mind 107 (1998), pp. 305-47
(33) Robin Jeshion, ‘Frege’s Notions of Self-Evidence’, Mind 110 (2001), pp. 937-76
(34) Joan Weiner, ‘What was Frege Trying to Prove? A Response to Jeshion’, Mind 113 (2004), pp. 115-29
(35) Robin Jeshion, ‘Frege: Evidence for Self-Evidence’, Mind 113 (2004), pp. 131 8
Volume III: Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics
Acknowledgements
Erich H. Reck and Michael Beaney, ‘Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics: Introduction to Volume III’
Part Eight: Frege and the History and Philosophy of Mathematics
(36) Mark Wilson, ‘Frege: The Royal Road from Geometry’, Nous 26 (1992), pp. 149-80; repr. in W. Demopoulos, ed., Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Harvard University Press, 1995, pp. 108-49
(37) William Demopoulos, ‘Frege and the Rigorization of Analysis’, Journal of Philosophical Logic 23 (1994), pp. 225-46
(38) Jamie Tappenden, ‘Extending Knowledge and “Fruitful Concepts”: Fregean Themes in the Foundations of Mathematics’, Nous 29 (1995), pp. 427-67
(39) W.W. Tait, ‘Frege versus Cantor and Dedekind: On the Concept of Number’, in M. Schirn, ed., Frege: Importance and Legacy, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996, pp. 70-113
(40) Mark Wilson, ‘Ghost World: A Context for Frege’s Context Principle’, new material
Part Nine: Frege’s Views on Numbers and Value-Ranges
(41) Peter Simons, ‘A Theory of Complex Numbers in the Spirit of Grundgesetze’, in I. Max and W. Stelzner, eds., Logik und Mathematik, Berlin: deGruyter, 1995, pp. 93-111
(42) Robert Brandom, ‘The Significance of Complex Numbers for Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94 (1996), pp. 293-315
(43) Thomas Ricketts, ‘Truth-Values and Courses-of-Value in Frege’s Grundgesetze’, in W.W. Tait, ed., Early Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Chicago: Open Court, 1997, pp. 187-211
(44) William Demopoulos, ‘The Philosophical Basis of Our Knowledge of Number’, Nous 32 (1998), pp. 481-503
(45) Erich H. Reck, ‘Frege’s Natural Numbers: Motivations and Modi¬fica¬tions’, new material
Part Ten: Consistency, Frege’s Theorem, and Neo-Logicism
(46) George Boolos, ‘The Consistency of Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic’, in J.J. Thomson, ed., On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard Cartwright, MIT Press, 1987, pp. 3-20
(47) Richard Heck, Jr., ‘The Development of Arithmetic in Frege’s Grundgesetze der Arith¬metik’, Journal of Symbolic Logic 58 (1993), pp. 579-601
(48) Crispin Wright, ‘On the Philosophical Significance of Frege’s Theorem’, in R. Heck, ed., Language, Thought, and Logic, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 201-44
(49) Crispin Wright, ‘Neo-Fregean Foundations for Real Analysis: Some Reflections on Frege’s Constraint’, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 41 (2000), pp. 317-34
Volume IV: Frege’s Philosophy of Thought and Language
Acknowledgements
Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, ‘Frege’s Philosophy of Thought and Language: Introduction to Volume IV’
Part Eleven: Frege and the Philosophy of Language
(50) Thomas G. Ricketts, ‘Generality, Meaning, and Sense in Frege’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 67 (1986), pp. 172-95
(51) Tyler Burge, ‘Frege on Sense and Linguistic Meaning’, in D. Bell and N. Cooper, eds., The Analytic Tradition, Oxford: Blackwell, 1990, pp. 30-60
(52) David Bell, ‘How ‘Russellian’ was Frege?’, Mind 99 (1990), pp. 267-77
(53) Hans Sluga, ‘Frege on Meaning’, in H.-J. Glock, ed., The Rise of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 17-34
(54) Joan Weiner, ‘Has Frege a Philosophy of Language?’, in W.W. Tait, ed., Early Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Chicago: Open Court, 1997, pp. 249-72
Part Twelve: Concepts and Predication
(55) Ian Rumfitt, ‘Frege’s Theory of Predication: An Elaboration and Defense, with Some New Applications’, Philosophical Review 103 (1994), pp. 599-37
(56) Gary Kemp, ‘Frege’s Sharpness Requirement’, Philosophical Quarterly 46 (1996), pp. 168-84
(57) Crispin Wright, ‘Why Frege Does Not Deserve His Grain of Salt: a Note on the Paradox of “The Concept Horse” and the Ascription of Bedeutungen to Predicates’, in Grazer Philosophische Studien 55, New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Dummett, ed. J. Brandl and P. Sullivan, Vienna: Rodopi, 1998, pp. 239-63
(58) Joan Weiner, ‘On Fregean Elucidation’, substantially revised version of ‘Theory and Elucidation: The End of the Age of Innocence’, in J. Floyd and S. Shieh, eds., Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 43-65
Part Thirteen: Sinn and Bedeutung
(59) William W. Taschek, ‘Frege’s Puzzle, Sense, and Information Content’, Mind 101 (1992), pp. 767-91
(60) Michael Dummett, ‘The Context Principle: Centre of Frege’s Philosophy’, in I. Max and W. Stelzner, eds., Logik und Mathematik, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, pp. 3-19
(61) Edward Harcourt, ‘Frege on ‘I’, ‘Now’, ‘Today’ and Some Other Linguistic Devices’, Synthese 121 (1999), pp. 329-56
(62) Michael Beaney, ‘Sinn, Bedeutung and the Paradox of Analysis’
Part Fourteen: The Analysis of Thoughts
(63) David Bell, ‘Thoughts’, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 28 (1987), pp. 36-50
(64) Michael Dummett, ‘More about Thoughts’, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 30 (1989), pp. 1-19
(65) Gregory Landini, ‘Decomposition and Analysis in Frege’s Grundgesetze’, History and Philosophy of Logic 17 (1996), pp. 121-39
(66) Bob Hale, ‘Grundlagen §64’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (1997), pp. 243-61
(67) James Levine, ‘Analysis and Decomposition in Frege and Russell’, Philosophical Quarterly 52 (2002), pp. 195-216
