List of abbreviations p. ix Introduction p. 1 Part I Russell p. 9 1 Russell's first theory of denoting p. 11 I The elements p. 11 II The mathematical context p. 13 III Denoting, definition and identity p. 16 IV Three essential elements p. 17 V Post-PoM developments p. 20 2 The c…
The many faces of anti-psychologism -- Frege's thinking -- Frege's epistemology -- Thinking and language
This book articulates and defends Fregean realism, a theory of properties based on Frege's insight that properties are not objects, but rather the satisfaction conditions of predicates. Robert Trueman argues that this approach is the key not only to dissolving a host of longstan…
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 Jacqu…
Essays on Frege's basic laws of arithmetic
This volume is the first collective study of a foundational text in modern philosophy and logic, Gottlob Frege's Basic Laws of Arithmetic which appeared in two volumes in 1893 and 1903. Twenty-two Frege scholars discuss a wide range of philosophical and logical topics arising fr…
