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The Frege reader / edited by Michael Beaney.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: engger Publication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 1997.ISBN:
  • 0631194444
  • 0631194452
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 193 21
Contents:
Abbreviations of Works by Frege -- Begriffsschrift (1879): Selections (Preface and Part I) -- Letter to Marty, 29.8.1882 -- The Foundations of Arithmetic (1884): Selections -- Function and Concept (1891) -- Letter to Husserl, 24.5.1891: Extract -- On Sinn and Bedeutung (1892) -- [Comments on Sinn and Bedeutung] (1892) -- On Concept and Object (1892) -- Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Volume I (1893): Selections -- Review of E. G. Husserl, Philosophie der Arithmetic I (1894): Extract -- Logic (1897): Extract -- On Euclidean Geometry (c. 1900) -- Letter to Russell, 22.6.1902: Extract -- Letter to Russel, 28.12.1902: Extract -- Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Volume II (1903): Selections -- Letter to Russell, 13.11.1904: Extract -- Introduction to Logic (1906): Extract -- A Brief Survey of my Logical Doctrines (1906): Extract -- Letters to Husserl, 1906 -- Logic in Mathematics (1914): Extract -- Letter to Jourdain, Jan. 1914: Extract -- My Basic Logical Insights (c. 1915) -- Thought (1918) -- Negation (1918) -- [Notes for Ludwig Darmstaedter] (1919) -- Sources of Knowledge of Mathematics and the Mathematical Natural Sciences (1924/5): Extract -- Numbers and Arithmetic (1924/5) -- App. 1. Chronology of Frege's Life and Works -- App. 2. Frege's Logical Notation -- App. 3. Guide to Further Reading.
Summary: This is the first single-volume edition and translation of Frege's philosophical writings to include his seminal papers as well as substantial selections from all three of his major works. It is intended to provide the essential primary texts for students of logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of language. It contains, in particular, Frege's four essays 'Function and Concept', 'On Sinn and Bedeutung', 'On Concept and Object' and 'Thought', and new translations of key parts of the Begriffsschrift, Grundlagen and Grundgesetze. Additional selections have also been made from his Collected Papers, Posthumous Writings and Correspondence. The editor's introduction provides an overview of the development and significance of Frege's philosophy, highlighting some of the main issues of interpretation. Footnotes, appendices and other editorial material have been supplied to facilitate understanding of the works of one of the central figures in modern philosophy.
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Bibliography.

Includes index.

Abbreviations of Works by Frege -- Begriffsschrift (1879): Selections (Preface and Part I) -- Letter to Marty, 29.8.1882 -- The Foundations of Arithmetic (1884): Selections -- Function and Concept (1891) -- Letter to Husserl, 24.5.1891: Extract -- On Sinn and Bedeutung (1892) -- [Comments on Sinn and Bedeutung] (1892) -- On Concept and Object (1892) -- Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Volume I (1893): Selections -- Review of E. G. Husserl, Philosophie der Arithmetic I (1894): Extract -- Logic (1897): Extract -- On Euclidean Geometry (c. 1900) -- Letter to Russell, 22.6.1902: Extract -- Letter to Russel, 28.12.1902: Extract -- Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Volume II (1903): Selections -- Letter to Russell, 13.11.1904: Extract -- Introduction to Logic (1906): Extract -- A Brief Survey of my Logical Doctrines (1906): Extract -- Letters to Husserl, 1906 -- Logic in Mathematics (1914): Extract -- Letter to Jourdain, Jan. 1914: Extract -- My Basic Logical Insights (c. 1915) -- Thought (1918) -- Negation (1918) -- [Notes for Ludwig Darmstaedter] (1919) -- Sources of Knowledge of Mathematics and the Mathematical Natural Sciences (1924/5): Extract -- Numbers and Arithmetic (1924/5) -- App. 1. Chronology of Frege's Life and Works -- App. 2. Frege's Logical Notation -- App. 3. Guide to Further Reading.

This is the first single-volume edition and translation of Frege's philosophical writings to include his seminal papers as well as substantial selections from all three of his major works. It is intended to provide the essential primary texts for students of logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of language. It contains, in particular, Frege's four essays 'Function and Concept', 'On Sinn and Bedeutung', 'On Concept and Object' and 'Thought', and new translations of key parts of the Begriffsschrift, Grundlagen and Grundgesetze. Additional selections have also been made from his Collected Papers, Posthumous Writings and Correspondence. The editor's introduction provides an overview of the development and significance of Frege's philosophy, highlighting some of the main issues of interpretation. Footnotes, appendices and other editorial material have been supplied to facilitate understanding of the works of one of the central figures in modern philosophy.

Translated from the German.

Hutto, Dan.