Research Catalog

Title

Frege / Anthony Kenny.

Author

Kenny, Anthony John Patrick.

Publication

London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 1995.

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Description

x, 222 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

Although almost unknown in his lifetime, it was Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) who set the agenda for much of twentieth-century philosophy. His 'concept script' overthrew Aristotle's long-established system of logic and underlies all subsequent developments in the subject. His radically new approach to the foundations of arithmetic, based on fresh definitions of the terms 'zero', 'one' and 'successor', revolutionized our understanding of mathematics. And his important insights into the nature of language and meaning provided the framework for Russell, Wittgenstein and twentieth-century linguistic analysis. In this superb survey of his evolving ideas, Anthony Kenny explains and assesses the full range of Frege's work and reveals why it still forms an ideal introduction to modern analytic philosophy. Even after seventy years, he concludes, Frege remains an absolutely central figure, one of those rare thinkers who wrote 'prose which is accessible and attractive on first acquaintance and yet which repays rereading over a lifetime'

Series Statement

Penguin philosophy

Uniform Title

Penguin philosophy

Subject

• Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925
• Analysis (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Biographical Introduction to Frege's Philosophy -- 2. Concept Script, I -- 3. Concept Script, II -- 4. The Foundations of Arithmetic, I -- 5. The Foundations of Arithmetic, II -- 6. Function, Concept and Object -- 7. Sense and Reference -- 8. Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, I -- 9. Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, II -- 10. Logical Investigations, I -- 11. Logical Investigations, II -- 12. Frege's Achievement -- App. I Frege's Symbolic Notation -- App. II A Note on Translation.

ISBN

0140125507

LCCN

^^^95211444^

OCLC

• 32635356
• SCSB-10787406

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library