New Essays on Frege

Focuses on Frege's view of fiction and the use of figurative modes of speech in relation to scientific research and philosophical investigations

Considers internal connections between different aspects of Frege's work while acknowledging the importance of its philosophical context

Elucidates Frege's conception of logic and the relation between natural language and the Begriffsschrift

Autorentext

Gisela Bengtsson is researcher in Philosophy affiliated to Uppsala University. Her research interests include Wittgenstein's philosophy, Frege, early analytic philosophy, and philosophy and literature. Since 2017, she is editor of The Nordic Wittgenstein Review.

Simo Säätelä is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. His research interests include Wittgenstein's philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of the humanities, and philosophy of mathematics.

Alois Pichler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen and Head of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen. His research interests include Wittgenstein's philosophy and works, editorial philology, and digital humanities.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Frege, the Normativity of Logic and the Kantian Tradition (Anssi Korhonen).- Chapter 2. Frege's Unquestioned Starting Point: Logic as Science (Jan Harald Alnes).- Chapter 3. Frege's Unmetaphysical Story about Natural Language and Truth (Joan Weiner).- Chapter 4. Frege against the Formalists (Sören Stenlund).- Chapter 5. Science and Fiction: A Fregean Approach (Gottfried Gabriel).- Chapter 6. Frege on Dichtung and Elucidaiton (Gisela Bengtsson).- Chapter 7. Frege's Judgment Stroke and Kierkegaard's Clown (Martin Gustafsson).- Chapter 8. The Poetry of Analytic Philosophy: Wittgenstein's Legacy from Frege and its Consequenses (Allan Janik).- Chapter 9. Frege and the Philosophical Poeticity of the Tractatus (Christian Erbacher).