Conceptual Notation and Related Articles

by Frege, Gottlob; Bynum, Terrell Ward

• ISBN13: 9780198243595
• ISBN10: 0198243596
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-07
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This volume contains English translations of Frege's early writings in logic and philosophy and of relevant reviews by other leading logicians. Professor Bynum has contributed a biographical essay, introduction, and extensive bibliography. ong Copy

Table of Contents

ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF GOTTLOB FREGE
Introduction	1	(1)
Family Background	2	(1)
Boyhood	2	(1)
University Studies	3	(1)
Habilitation	4	(2)
Between Habilitation and Conceptual Notation*	6	(4)
Conceptual Notation	10	(5)
Reception of Conceptual Notation	15	(5)
Between Conceptual Notation and Foundations of Arithmetic	20	(4)
Foundations of Arithmetic	24	(4)
Reception of Foundations of Arithmetic	28	(2)
Between Foundations of Arithmetic and Basic Laws of Arithmetic I	30	(4)
Basic Laws of Arithmetic I	34	(3)
Reception of Basic Laws of Arithmetic I: Frege and Peano	37	(4)
Between Basic Laws of Arithmetic I and Russell's Paradox	41	(5)
Russell's Paradox: Frege and Russell	46	(4)
After Russell's Paradox	50	(5)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	55	(154)
TRANSLATIONS OF FREGE'S WORKS
On the Scientific Justification of a Conceptual Notation	83	(7)
On the Aim of the ``Conceptual Notation''	90	(114)
Conceptual Notation	101	(103)
Applications of the ``Conceptual Notation''	204	(5)
APPENDIX I: REVIEWS OF THE Conceptual Notation BY FREGE'S CONTEMPORARIES	209	(27)
APPENDIX II: EVALUATIONS OF FREGE'S Conceptual Notation BY PRESENT-DAY SCHOLARS	236	(3)
A FREGE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1873-1966†	239	(50)
The works of Frege	240	(8)
Secondary Sources	248	(22)
Additional Sources	270	(19)
Index	289