Frege: Sense and Reference Once Hundred Years Later
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Overview
Gottlob Frege's Über Sinn und Bedeutung ('On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of Frege's writings on logic and mathematics, came to mark out a whole new domain of inquiry. This volume bears witness to the continuing importance and influence of that agenda. It contains original papers written by leading Frege scholars for the conference held in 1992 in Karlovy Vary to celebrate the publication of Frege's essay. The fourteen essays show how the questions Frege discusses in that essay connect intimately with issues much debated in current philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.Synopsis
Gottlob Frege's Über Sinn und Bedeutung ('On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of Frege's writings on logic and mathematics, came to mark out a whole new domain of inquiry. This volume bears witness to the continuing importance and influence of that agenda. It contains original papers written by leading Frege scholars for the conference held in 1992 in Karlovy Vary to celebrate the publication of Frege's essay. The fourteen essays show how the questions Frege discusses in that essay connect intimately with issues much debated in current philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
Booknews
Commemorates the centenary of publication of Gottlob Frege's "<:U>ber Sinn und Bedeutung" (On Sense and Reference), one of the seminal texts of analytical philosophy, with 14 papers from a conference in Karloby Vay, Bohemia, in September 1992. They demonstrate how the questions he discusses in the essay connect intimately with issues that are currently debated in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. Among the topics are three puzzles in his theory of truth, concept- reference and kinds, the communication of first-person thoughts, understanding names, and the Neo-Fregean argument. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.