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1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (colour) |
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Oxford Academic
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Acknowledgements -- Credits -- Complete List of Publications by Eva Picardi xiii -- Introduction -- PART I . FREGE IN CONTEXT: LOGIC AND PSYCHOLOGY -- 1. The Logic of Frege's Contemporaries -- 2. Kerry and Frege on Concept and Object -- 3. Sigwart, Husserl, and Frege on Truth and Logic, or Is Psychologism Still a Threat? -- 4. Frege's Anti-Psychologism -- 5. Frege, Peano, and Russell on the Primitive Ideas of Logic -- PART I I . FREGE'S PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE -- 6. Über Sinn und Bedeutung: An Elementary Exposition -- 7. The Chemistry of Concepts -- 8. Assertion and Assertion Sign -- 9. A Note on Dummett and Frege on Sense Identity -- 10. Michael Dummett's Interpretation of Frege's Context Principle: Some Reflections -- PART III . FREGE'S LEGACY -- 11. Carnap Interpreter of Frege -- 12. Frege and Davidson on Predication -- 13. Davidson and Frege on the Unity of the Proposition: Some Remarks -- 14. Was Frege a Proto-Inferentialist? -- Index of Names -- Index |
| Summary |
Eva Picardi has been one of the most influential Italian analytic philosophers of her generation. She taught for forty years at the University of Bologna, raising three generations of students. The present volume is a collection of Picardi's papers on Frege's philosophy of logic, language, and psychology. Together, these papers provide a close look at the milieu within which Frege operated and serve to highlight the relevance of his work for contemporary debates, particularly in the philosophy of language. One strand in her work on Frege concerns understanding and contextualizing Frege's anti-psychologism. Picardi's contention is that it is much more motivated by semantic considerations than by adherence to Kantian transcendentalism. Furthermore, her deep knowledge of German and the fact that she was a native speaker of Italian put her in a privileged position to reconstruct the intricacies of Frege's relationship with other logicians of his time, both in Germany, such as Kerry and Sigwart, and in Italy, such as Peano and his school. Picardi's work in this regard is all the more significant nowadays, as these two dimensions of philosophy-the historical and the theoretical-are typically perceived as separate, if not even in competition with one another, particularly within analytic philosophy itself. Reading Picardi's work, in contrast, cannot but show that they complement and enrich one another. Such a methodological lesson is the most original and impactful element in Picardi's legacy and something deeply dear to her heart and constitutive of her identity as a scholar |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on May 30, 2022) |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Probabilities.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and logic.
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Mathematics -- Philosophy.
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Physics -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and logic.
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Mathematics -- Philosophy.
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Physics -- Philosophy.
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Probabilities.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Coliva, Annalisa, 1973- author
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| ISBN |
9780191895289 |
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0191895288 |
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0192607588 |
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9780192607584 |
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