Logicism and the Philosophy of Language

Selections from Frege and Russell

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2003 | illustrated Edition
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55111-471-2 (ISBN)

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Logicism and the Philosophy of Language brings together the core works by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell on logic and language. In their separate efforts to clarify mathematics through the use of logic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Frege and Russell both recognized the need for rigorous and systematic semantic analysis of language. It was their turn to this style of analysis that would establish the philosophy of language as an autonomous area of inquiry. This anthology gathers together these foundational writings, and frames them with an extensive historical introduction. This is a collection for anyone interested in questions about truth, meaning, reference, and logic, and in the application of formal analysis to these concepts.

Arthur Sullivan is presently a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow, and a Visiting Scholar at New York University.

Preface
Notes on the Selections

Introduction

Overview
Philosophical Background

Prevalent Ideas about Semantics in Modern Philosophy
A Sketch of Kant’s Philosophy
Three Strands in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

The Logicist Thesis

The Foundations of Mathematics
Frege’s Program
Russell’s Rediscovery of Logicism

Philosophical Logic

Modern Logic
Function and Argument
Analysis of Language as Philosophical Method

Some Disputed Issues in Early Analytic Philosophy

Meaning: Semantic Monism and Semantic Dualism
Logical Form: On Denoting
Philosophy of Logic

The Legacy of Logicism
Works Cited

Works of Gottlob Frege

Conceptual Notation (1879), Preface and Chapter 1
On the Scientific Justification of a Conceptual Notation (1882)
On the Aim of the “Conceptual Notation” (1882)
The Foundations of Arithmetic (1884), Introduction
Function and Concept (1891)
On Concept and Object (1892)
On Sense and Reference (1892)
What is a Function? (1904)
The Thought: A Logical Inquiry (1918)

Works of Bertrand Russell

Mathematics and the Metaphysicians (1901)
On Denoting (1905)
Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description (1911)
Logic as the Essence of Philosophy (1914)
Descriptions (1919)
Mathematics and Logic (1919)

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2003
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	1-55111-471-2 / 1551114712
ISBN-13	978-1-55111-471-2 / 9781551114712
Zustand	Neuware