Frege on Language, Logic, and Psychology Selected Essays

Eva Picardi, Università di Bologna

The late Eva Picardi, one of the leading Italian analytic philosophers of her generation, was born in Reggio Calabria in 1948. She graduated from the University of Bologna and was awarded a DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, supervised by Sir Michael Dummett. She is the author of
Assertibility and Truth: A Study of Fregean Themes (Bologna, 1981) and La chimica dei concetti (Bologna 1994). Picardi taught at the University of Bologna from 1976 until 2016. She died in Bologna on April 23, 2017.

Annalisa Coliva is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of California, Irvine, where she is currently a Chancellor Fellow. She is the author of The Varieties of Self-Knowledge (Palgrave, 2016) and Relativism (with Maria Baghramian, Routledge, 2020), and
the editor of Mind, Meaning and Knowledge: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright (OUP, 2012), among several others.

Introduction, by Annalisa Coliva
Part I: Frege in Context--Logic and Psychology
1. The Logic of Frege's Contemporaries
2. Kerry and Frege on Concept and Object
3. Sigwart, Husserl, and Frege on Truth and Logic, or Is Psychologism Still a Threat?
4. Frege's Anti-Psychologism
5. Frege, Peano, and Russell on the Primitive Ideas of Logic
Part II: Frege's Philosophy of Language
6. Über Sinn und Bedeutung: An Elementary Exposition
7. The Chemistry of Concepts
8. Assertion and Assertion Sign
9. A Note on Dummett and Frege on Sense-Identity
10. Michael Dummett's Interpretation of Frege's Context Principle: Some Reflections
Part III: Frege s Legacy
11. Carnap Interpreter of Frege
12. Frege and Davidson on Predication
13. Davidson and Frege on the Unity of the Proposition: Some Remarks
14. Was Frege a Proto-Inferentialist?