1st Edition

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Frege on Sense and Reference

By Mark Textor Copyright 2011
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. He was first and foremost a mathematician, but his major works also made important contributions to the philosophy of language. Frege’s writings are difficult and deal with technical, abstract concepts. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Frege On Sense and Reference... Read more

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

Biography

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).