Frege and Other Philosophers.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Frege on the Consistency of Mathematical Theories -- 2. Frege and the Paradox of Analysis -- 3. On a Question of Frege's about Right-Ordered Groups (with S. A. Adeleke and P. M. Neumann) -- 4. Frege's 'Kernsätze zur Logik' -- 5. Frege as a Realist -- 6. Objectivity and Reality in Lotze and Frege -- 7. Frege and Kant on Geometry -- 8. An Unsuccessful Dig -- 9. Second Thoughts -- 10. Which End of the Telescope? -- 11. Frege and Wittgenstein -- 12. Frege's Myth of the Third Realm -- 13. Thought and Perception: The Views of Two Philosophical Innovators -- 14. More about Thoughts -- 15. The Relative Priority of Thought and Language -- Appendix: Writings on Frege by Michael Dummett -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
The ideas of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege lie at the root of the analytic movement in philosophy; Michael Dummett is his leading modern critical interpreter and one of today's most eminent philosophers. This volume collects together fifteen of Dummett's classic essays on Frege and related subjects.