The Cambridge companion to Frege / [edited by] Tom Ricketts, Michael Potter.

"Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic...

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Uniform Title:Cambridge companions to philosophy.
Other Authors: Ricketts, Tom
Potter, Michael D.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge companions to philosophy.
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Physical Description:xi, 639 pages .
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Preface; Note on translations; Chronology; 1. Introduction Michael Potter; 2. Understanding Frege's project Joan Weiner; 3. Frege's conception of logic Warren Goldfarb; 4. Dummett's Frege Peter Sullivan; 5. What is a predicate? Alex Oliver; 6. Concepts, objects, and the context principle Thomas Ricketts; 7. Sense and reference Michael Kremer; 8. On sense and reference: a critical reception William Taschek; 9. Frege and semantics Richard Heck; 10. Frege's mathematical setting Mark Wilson; 11. Frege and Hilbert Michael Hallett; 12. Frege's folly Peter Milne; 13. Frege and Russell Peter Hylton; 14. Inheriting from Frege: the work of reception, as Wittgenstein did it Cora Diamond.