Author: Crispin Wright
Publisher: Pergamon
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects
Author: Crispin Wright
Publisher: Pergamon
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Pergamon
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Fixing Frege
Author: John P. Burgess
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691122311
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Gottlob Frege's attempt to found mathematics on a grand logical system came to grief when Bertrand Russell discovered a contradiction in it. This book surveys consistent restrictions in both the old and new versions of Frege's system, determining just how much of mathematics can be reconstructed in each.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691122311
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Gottlob Frege's attempt to found mathematics on a grand logical system came to grief when Bertrand Russell discovered a contradiction in it. This book surveys consistent restrictions in both the old and new versions of Frege's system, determining just how much of mathematics can be reconstructed in each.
The Foundations of Arithmetic
Author: Gottlob Frege
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631126945
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A philosophical discussion of the concept of number In the book, The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number, Gottlob Frege explains the central notions of his philosophy and analyzes the perspectives of predecessors and contemporaries. The book is the first philosophically relevant discussion of the concept of number in Western civilization. The work went on to significantly influence philosophy and mathematics. Frege was a German mathematician and philosopher who published the text in 1884, which seeks to define the concept of a number. It was later translated into English. This is the revised second edition.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631126945
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A philosophical discussion of the concept of number In the book, The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number, Gottlob Frege explains the central notions of his philosophy and analyzes the perspectives of predecessors and contemporaries. The book is the first philosophically relevant discussion of the concept of number in Western civilization. The work went on to significantly influence philosophy and mathematics. Frege was a German mathematician and philosopher who published the text in 1884, which seeks to define the concept of a number. It was later translated into English. This is the revised second edition.
Necessary Beings
Author: Bob Hale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199669570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199669570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.
Frege's Conception of Logic
Author: Patricia Blanchette
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199891613
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In Frege's Conception of Logic Patricia A. Blanchette explores the relationship between Gottlob Frege's understanding of conceptual analysis and his understanding of logic. She argues that the fruitfulness of Frege's conception of logic, and the illuminating differences between that conception and those more modern views that have largely supplanted it, are best understood against the backdrop of a clear account of the role of conceptual analysis in logical investigation. The first part of the book locates the role of conceptual analysis in Frege's logicist project. Blanchette argues that despite a number of difficulties, Frege's use of analysis in the service of logicism is a powerful and coherent tool. As a result of coming to grips with his use of that tool, we can see that there is, despite appearances, no conflict between Frege's intention to demonstrate the grounds of ordinary arithmetic and the fact that the numerals of his derived sentences fail to co-refer with ordinary numerals. In the second part of the book, Blanchette explores the resulting conception of logic itself, and some of the straightforward ways in which Frege's conception differs from its now-familiar descendants. In particular, Blanchette argues that consistency, as Frege understands it, differs significantly from the kind of consistency demonstrable via the construction of models. To appreciate this difference is to appreciate the extent to which Frege was right in his debate with Hilbert over consistency- and independence-proofs in geometry. For similar reasons, modern results such as the completeness of formal systems and the categoricity of theories do not have for Frege the same importance they are commonly taken to have by his post-Tarskian descendants. These differences, together with the coherence of Frege's position, provide reason for caution with respect to the appeal to formal systems and their properties in the treatment of fundamental logical properties and relations.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199891613
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In Frege's Conception of Logic Patricia A. Blanchette explores the relationship between Gottlob Frege's understanding of conceptual analysis and his understanding of logic. She argues that the fruitfulness of Frege's conception of logic, and the illuminating differences between that conception and those more modern views that have largely supplanted it, are best understood against the backdrop of a clear account of the role of conceptual analysis in logical investigation. The first part of the book locates the role of conceptual analysis in Frege's logicist project. Blanchette argues that despite a number of difficulties, Frege's use of analysis in the service of logicism is a powerful and coherent tool. As a result of coming to grips with his use of that tool, we can see that there is, despite appearances, no conflict between Frege's intention to demonstrate the grounds of ordinary arithmetic and the fact that the numerals of his derived sentences fail to co-refer with ordinary numerals. In the second part of the book, Blanchette explores the resulting conception of logic itself, and some of the straightforward ways in which Frege's conception differs from its now-familiar descendants. In particular, Blanchette argues that consistency, as Frege understands it, differs significantly from the kind of consistency demonstrable via the construction of models. To appreciate this difference is to appreciate the extent to which Frege was right in his debate with Hilbert over consistency- and independence-proofs in geometry. For similar reasons, modern results such as the completeness of formal systems and the categoricity of theories do not have for Frege the same importance they are commonly taken to have by his post-Tarskian descendants. These differences, together with the coherence of Frege's position, provide reason for caution with respect to the appeal to formal systems and their properties in the treatment of fundamental logical properties and relations.
Thin Objects
Author: Øystein Linnebo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199641315
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Mathematics appears to be concerned with abstract objects such as numbers and sets. What are these objects? Oystein Linnebo develops a distinctive approach to ontology, in which abstract objects such as numbers and sets are demystified and allowed to exist alongside more familiar physical objects.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199641315
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Mathematics appears to be concerned with abstract objects such as numbers and sets. What are these objects? Oystein Linnebo develops a distinctive approach to ontology, in which abstract objects such as numbers and sets are demystified and allowed to exist alongside more familiar physical objects.
Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism
Author: Sten Lindström
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402089260
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This anthology reviews the programmes in the foundations of mathematics from the classical period and assesses their possible relevance for contemporary philosophy of mathematics. A special section is concerned with constructive mathematics.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402089260
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This anthology reviews the programmes in the foundations of mathematics from the classical period and assesses their possible relevance for contemporary philosophy of mathematics. A special section is concerned with constructive mathematics.
Reading Frege's Grundgesetze
Author: Richard G. Heck
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199233705
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Readership: Scholars and advanced students of philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and history of analytic philosophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199233705
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Readership: Scholars and advanced students of philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and history of analytic philosophy
The Basic Laws of Arithmetic
Author: Gottlob Frege
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Frege, Dedekind, and Peano on the Foundations of Arithmetic (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Donald Gillies
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113672107X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
First published in 1982, this reissue contains a critical exposition of the views of Frege, Dedekind and Peano on the foundations of arithmetic. The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in the foundations of arithmetic. This work analyses both the reasons for this growth of interest within both mathematics and philosophy and the ways in which this study of the foundations of arithmetic led to new insights in philosophy and striking advances in logic. This historical-critical study provides an excellent introduction to the problems of the philosophy of mathematics - problems which have wide implications for philosophy as a whole. This reissue will appeal to students of both mathematics and philosophy who wish to improve their knowledge of logic.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113672107X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
First published in 1982, this reissue contains a critical exposition of the views of Frege, Dedekind and Peano on the foundations of arithmetic. The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in the foundations of arithmetic. This work analyses both the reasons for this growth of interest within both mathematics and philosophy and the ways in which this study of the foundations of arithmetic led to new insights in philosophy and striking advances in logic. This historical-critical study provides an excellent introduction to the problems of the philosophy of mathematics - problems which have wide implications for philosophy as a whole. This reissue will appeal to students of both mathematics and philosophy who wish to improve their knowledge of logic.