Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed

Gottlob Frege is regarded as one of the founders of modern logic and analytic philosophy, indeed as the greatest innovator in logic since Aristotle. His groundbreaking work identified many of the basic conceptions and distinctions that later came to dominate analytic philosophy. The literature on him is legion and ever-growing in complexity, representing a considerable challenge to the non-expert. The details of his logic, which have come into focus in recent research, are particularly difficult to grasp, although they are crucial to the development of his grand project, the reduction of arithmetic to logic, and the associated philosophical innovations. This book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to Frege's logic, taking the reader directly to the core of his philosophy, and ultimately to some of the most pertinent issues in contemporary philosophy of language, logic, mathematics, and the mind.

1. Introduction \ 2. Begriffsschrift: probing the terrain \ 2.1 Scope of a concept-script\ 2.2 The epistemological dimension of logic \ 2.3 The struggle against intuition and language \ 2.4 Concept-script: a brief overview \ 3. Begriffsschrift: digging deeper \ 3.1 The judgment-stroke and the content-stroke \ 3.2 Subject and predicate \ 3.3 Modes of judgment, negation \ 3.4 Conditionality \ 3.5 The functional character of concept-script\ 3.6 Identity \ 3.7 Definition \ 3.8 Logical analysis and elucidations \ 3.9 Functions and functional analysis \ 3.10 Functions, concepts, properties \ 3.11 Generality \ 3.12 Inference \ 4. Later developments \ 4.1 Sense and Meaning \ 4.2 The function-theoretic account of Sense \ 4.3 The challenge of contingent thoughts \ 4.4 Are concepts functions? \ 4.5 Concept and object \ 4.6 Fictional discourse \ 5. Epilogue \ 6. Literature \ Notes \ Index

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Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed

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