The Cambridge Companion to Frege

Name: The Cambridge Companion to Frege
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Companion to FregeAuthor(s): Tom Ricketts, Michael Potter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521624794, 978-0521624794\nSynopsis\nGottlob Frege [tel] was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic but also had to address fundamental questions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Frege is generally seen (along with Russell and Wittgenstein) as one of the fathers of the analytic method, which dominated philosophy in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century. His work is studied today not just for its historical importance but also because many of his ideas are still seen as relevant to current debates in the philosophies of l.