Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics
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Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics by William Demopoulos
This collection of essays addresses three main developments in recent work on Frege's philosophy of mathematics: the emerging interest in the intellectual background to his logicism; the rediscovery of Frege's theorem; and the reevaluation of the mathematical content of The Basic Laws of Arithmetic.
Scholarly, thorough, and well presented..This collection presents material that has important philosophical implications. -- Gordon Baker * Times Higher Education Supplement *
This is clearly the best collection of articles on Frege's philosophy of mathematics in existence today. It is also (unlike many collections of articles that are published these days) practically very useful. It serves as an excellent introduction to what is the liveliest part of Frege scholarship today, and to what has become an important sub-field of contemporary philosophy of mathematics, namely the understanding and assessment of the logistic project. -- Leon Horsten * Zentralblatt MATH *
Distinctive, indeed, unique, in its concentration on the formal argument in Frege's work. There is no other secondary work in any form which engages the formal argument through the whole of Frege's project. These essays motivate the work, and locate it philosophically, rendering it independent of other secondary sources. -- Kenneth Manders, University of Pittsburgh
This is clearly the best collection of articles on Frege's philosophy of mathematics in existence today. It is also (unlike many collections of articles that are published these days) practically very useful. It serves as an excellent introduction to what is the liveliest part of Frege scholarship today, and to what has become an important sub-field of contemporary philosophy of mathematics, namely the understanding and assessment of the logistic project. -- Leon Horsten * Zentralblatt MATH *
Distinctive, indeed, unique, in its concentration on the formal argument in Frege's work. There is no other secondary work in any form which engages the formal argument through the whole of Frege's project. These essays motivate the work, and locate it philosophically, rendering it independent of other secondary sources. -- Kenneth Manders, University of Pittsburgh
William Demopoulos (1943–2017), editor of Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics and author of Logicism and Its Philosophical Legacy, spent nearly four decades as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674319431 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674319435 |
| Title | Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics |
| Author | William Demopoulos |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1997-03-25 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
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