Reading Frege's Grundgesetze
ISBN: 9780199233700 | 0199233705
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/7/2013
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Gottlob Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, or Basic Laws of Arithmetic, was intended to be his magnum opus, the book in which he would finally establish his logicist philosophy of arithmetic. But because of the disaster of Russell's Paradox, which undermined Frege's proofs, the moremathematical parts of the book have rarely been read. Richard G. Heck, Jr., aims to change that, and establish it as a neglected masterpiece that must be placed at the center of Frege's philosophy.Part I of Reading Frege's Grundgesetze develops an interpretation of... MORE
| Preface | |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Introduction | |
| The Logic Behind Frege's Logicism | |
| Frege and Semantics | |
| Grundgesetze I SCSC29-32 (I) | |
| Grundgesetze I SC10 | |
| Grundgesetze I SCSC29-32 (II) | |
| The Mathematics Behind Frege's Logicism | |
| The Development of Arithmetic | |
| Definition by Recursion | ... MORE |
| Frege on Finitude | |
| The Finite and the Infinite | |
| The Definition of Addition | |
| Further unto the Infinite | |
| Appendices | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Richard G. Heck Jr. is Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University, where he has taught since 2005. He taught at Harvard University from 1991 through 2005 and was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received his PhD in 1991; at New College, Oxford (BPhil, 1987), where he was a Marshall Scholar; and at Duke University (BS, 1985). Professor Heck has worked on the philosophies of language, logic, mathematics, and mind, and is is one of the world's foremost experts on the philosophy of Gottlob Frege. He lives in Canton, Massachusetts, with his wife, daughter, and five cats.
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