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Book SynopsisEdward Kanterian is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Kent, and the author of
Analytic Philosophy (2004) and
Wittgenstein (2007).He has a forthcoming book on Kant's God.
Trade Review‘This is a splendid book. In a lucid and leisurely style it explains the ideas of the greatest logician since Leibniz and a seminal figure in the growth both of analytical philosophy and of its continental rivals. The author shirks no difficulties. He provides the first book-length elucidation of Frege's original logical notation. He thoroughly explores such ideas as the function-argument and the sense-reference distinction, judiciously discriminating between what we should retain and what we should discard. He sheds a bright light into the darkest recesses of Frege's intricate thought.' -- Michael Inwood, Professor Emeritus, Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK
Table of Contents1. Introduction / 2. Begriffsschrift: probing the terrain / 2.1 Scope of a concept-script\ 2.2 The epistemological dimension of logic / 2.3 The struggle against intuition and language / 2.4 Concept-script: a brief overview / 3. Begriffsschrift: digging deeper / 3.1 The judgment-stroke and the content-stroke / 3.2 Subject and predicate / 3.3 Modes of judgment, negation / 3.4 Conditionality / 3.5 The functional character of concept-script\ 3.6 Identity / 3.7 Definition / 3.8 Logical analysis and elucidations / 3.9 Functions and functional analysis / 3.10 Functions, concepts, properties / 3.11 Generality / 3.12 Inference / 4. Later developments / 4.1 Sense and Meaning / 4.2 The function-theoretic account of Sense / 4.3 The challenge of contingent thoughts / 4.4 Are concepts functions? / 4.5 Concept and object / 4.6 Fictional discourse / 5. Epilogue / Notes / Bibliography / Index
