Gottlob Frege is one of the greatest logicians ever and also a philosopher of great significance. More than just an introduction to Frege's philosophy, this book is also a critical and mature assessment of it as a whole in which the limitations, confusions and other weaknesses of Frege's thought are closely examined.
The book offers a curated collection of scholarly papers spanning four decades, focusing primarily on the philosophy of mathematics, logic, and formal semantics. The first two parts delve into fundamental issues and the interplay between knowledge and science, engaging with notable philosophers like Husserl and Frege. The final section shifts to political philosophy, analyzing the misuse of terms like democracy and socialism in U.S. governance and providing a clearer understanding of these concepts.
This collection features seventeen papers focusing on philosophy of logic, mathematics, language, and epistemology. It critically examines Frege, Husserl, Carnap, and Kripke, while also addressing key topics like Platonism, second-order logic, analyticity, and modal logic semantics.
The book contributes to the refutation of the separation of philosophy in the 20th century into analytic and continental. It is shown that Edmund Husserl was seriously concerned with issues of so-called analytic philosophy, that there are strict parallelisms between Husserl’s treatment of philosophical subjects and those of authors in the analytic tradition, and that Husserl had a strong influence on Rudolf Carnap’s ‘Aufbau’.