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Author:   Dale Jacquette
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.220kg
ISBN:  

9780521863278

ISBN 10:   0521863279
Pages:   680
Publication Date:   04 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Early life (1848–54); 2. Education through university days (1854–74); 3. Post-doctoral research and teaching (1874–9); 4. Frege's Begriffsschrift (1879) – ideal logical language; 5. The aftermath of Begriffsschrift to Grundlagen der Arithmetik (1880–4); 6. The logical foundations of number in Grundlagen (1884); 7. Professional advancement, marriage, and the quest for objectivity in a scientific theory of meaning (1885–92); 8. Sense, reference, and psychological epiphenomena in Frege's semantics (1892); 9. Frege's culminating masterwork - Grundgesetze der Arithmetik I, II (1893/1903); 10. Academic and personal life, the review of Husserl, mathematical and philosophical correspondence (1894–1902); 11. The crucible of logicism and the crisis of Russell's paradox (1902–4); 12. Personal tragedy and a philosophical hiatus (1904–17); 13. The late essays in philosophical logic – Logische Untersuchungen (1918–23); 14. The twilight years (1923–5) and Frege's enduring legacy in mathematical logic and philosophy.

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'... this study is the most comprehensive biography of Frege available and a thoroughly researched work of love.' L. C. Archie, Choice '... this study is the most comprehensive biography of Frege available and a thoroughly researched work of love.' L. C. Archie, Choice

'... this study is the most comprehensive biography of Frege available and a thoroughly researched work of love.' L. C. Archie, Choice

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Dale Jacquette was Senior Professorial Chair in Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern. His many publications included The Cambridge Companion to Brentano (Cambridge, 2004), the Blackwell Companion to Philosophical Logic (2005), and The Philosophy of Mind: The Metaphysics of Consciousness (2009).

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