Logicism and the Philosophy of Language

by Frege, Gottlob; Russell, Bertrand; Sullivan, Arthur

• ISBN13: 9781551114712
• ISBN10: 1551114712
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

Logicism and the Philosophy of Language brings together the core works by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell on logic and language. In their separate efforts to clarify mathematics through the use of logic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Frege and Russell both recognized the need for rigorous and systematic semantic analysis of language. It was their turn to this style of analysis that would establish the philosophy of language as an autonomous area of inquiry. This anthology gathers together these foundational writings, and frames them with an extensive historical introduction. This is a collection for anyone interested in questions about truth, meaning, reference, and logic, and in the application of formal analysis to these concepts.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Notes on the Selections	11	(4)
Introduction	15	(1)
Overview	16	(3)
Philosophical Background	19	(12)
Prevalent Ideas about Semantics in Modern Philosophy	19	(2)
A Sketch of Kant's Philosophy	21	(8)
Three Strands in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy	29	(2)
The Logicist Thesis	31	(14)
The Foundations of Mathematics	31	(6)
Frege's Program	37	(5)
Russell's Rediscovery of Logicism	42	(3)
Philosophical Logic	45	(22)
Modern Logic	45	(9)
Function and Argument	54	(6)
Analysis of Language as Philosophical Method	60	(7)
Some Disputed Issues in Early Analytic Philosophy	67	(20)
Meaning: Semantic Monism and Semantic Dualism	67	(8)
Logical Form: On Denoting	75	(7)
Philosophy of Logic	82	(5)
The Legacy of Logicism	87	(4)
Works Cited	89	(2)
Works of Gottlob Frege	91	(128)
Conceptual Notation (1879), Preface and Chapter 1	93	(26)
On the Scientific Justification of a Conceptual Notation (1882)	119	(6)
On the Aim of the ``Conceptual Notation'' (1882)	125	(10)
The Foundations of Arithmetic (1884), Introduction	135	(8)
Function and Concept (1891)	143	(20)
On Concept and Object (1892)	163	(12)
On Sense and Reference (1892)	175	(18)
What is a Function? (1904)	193	(8)
The Thought: A Logical Inquiry (1918)	201	(18)
Works of Bertrand Russell	219	(78)
Mathematics and the Metaphysicians (1901)	221	(14)
On Denoting (1905)	235	(14)
Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description (1911)	249	(14)
Logic as the Essence of Philosophy (1914)	263	(16)
Descriptions (1919)	279	(10)
Mathematics and Logic (1919)	289	(8)
Sources	297