Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance
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- 2014
Summary
Pieranna Garavaso and Nicla Vassallo investigate Gottlob Frege's notion of thinking (das Denken) to provide a new analysis of a largely unexplored area of the philosopher's work. Confronting Frege's deeply seated and widely emphasized anti-psychologism, Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance claims that the objective human science that Frege proposed can only be possible through a nuanced notion of thinking as neither merely psychological nor merely logical. Focusing on what Frege says about thinking in many passages from his works, Garavaso and Vassallo argue that Frege was engaged with issues that are still alive in contemporary debates, such as the definition of knowledge and the necessary role of language in conceptual thinking and in the expression of thoughts. Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance is essential not only for those interested in a new and original reading of Frege’s philosophy, but also for anyone engaged in epistemology, logic, psychology, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.
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- Copyright year
- 2014
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-7838-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-7839-3
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 128
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- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
- Chapter Two: The Many Faces of Frege’s Anti-Psychologism No access Pages 17 - 40
- Chapter Three: Frege’s Thinking No access Pages 41 - 62
- Chapter Four: Frege’s Epistemology No access Pages 63 - 84
- Chapter Five: The Epistemic Role of Language in Thinking and Representing Thoughts No access Pages 85 - 106
- Chapter Six: Conclusion No access Pages 107 - 110
- References No access Pages 111 - 122
- Index No access Pages 123 - 126
- About the Authors No access Pages 127 - 128





