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Frege

A Philosophical Biography

Dale Jacquette author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:4th Apr '19

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A rich and informative biography of one of the most important and influential figures of analytic philosophy.

Dale Jacquette's lively and incisive biography charts Frege's life from its beginnings in small-town north Germany, through his student days in Jena, to his development as an enduringly influential thinker. His rich and informative biography will appeal to all who are interested in Frege's philosophy.Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and related areas. Dale Jacquette's lively and incisive biography charts Frege's life from its beginnings in small-town north Germany, through his student days in Jena, to his development as an enduringly influential thinker. Along the way Jacquette considers Frege's ground-breaking Begriffschrift (1879), in which he formulated his 'ideal logical language', his magisterial Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (1893 and 1903), and his complex relation to thinkers including Husserl and especially Russell, whose Paradox had such drastic implications for Frege's logicism. Jacquette concludes with a thoughtful assessment of Frege's legacy. His rich and informative biography will appeal to all who are interested in Frege's philosophy.

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

ISBN: 9780521863278

Dimensions: 235mm x 160mm x 35mm

Weight: 1220g

680 pages