Frege a philosophical biography
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and related areas. Dale Jacquette's lively an...
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Early life (1848-1854); 2. Education through university days (1854-1874); 3. Post-doctoral research and teaching (1874-1879); 4. Frege's Begriffsschrift (1879) - ideal logical language; 5. The aftermath of Begriffsschrift to Grundlagen der Arithmetik (1880-1884); 6. The logical foundations of number in Grundlagen (1884); 7. Professional advancement, marriage, and the quest for objectivity in a scientific theory of meaning (1885-1892); 8. Sense, reference, and psychological epiphenomena in Frege's semantics (1892); 9. Frege's culminating masterwork - Grundgesetze der Arithmetik I, II (1893/1903); 10. Academic and personal life, the review of Husserl, mathematical and philosophical correspondence (1894-1902); 11. The crucible of logicism and the crisis of Russell's paradox (1902-1904); 12. Personal tragedy and a philosophical hiatus (1904-1917); 13. The late essays in philosophical logic - Logische Untersuchungen (1918-1923); 14. The twilight years (1923-1925) and Frege's enduring legacy in mathematical logic and philosophy