Frege on Language, Logic, and Psychology

Frege on Language, Logic, and Psychology

by Eva Picardi and Annalisa Coliva
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/07/2022

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Eva Picardi (1948-2017) was one of the most influential Italian analytic philosophers of her generation. She taught for forty years at the University of Bologna, raising three generations of students. This volume presents a selection of Picardi's essays on Frege's philosophy of logic, language, and psychology. Together, these papers provide a close look at the milieu within which Frege operated, and serve to highlight the relevance of his work for contemporary debates, particularly in the philosophy of language. One strand in Picardi's work on Frege concerns understanding and contextualizing Frege's anti-psychologism. Picardi contends that Frege was motivated by semantic considerations, much more so than by adherence to Kantian transcendentalism. Furthermore, Picardi draws on her deep knowledge of German, and the fact that she was a native speaker of Italian, to reconstruct the intricacies of Frege's relationship with other logicians of his time-both in Germany, like Kerry and Sigwart, and in Italy, like Peano and his school. Picardi's work shows how the historical and the theoretical (typically treated as separate in contemporary analytic philosophy, even in competition), complement and enrich one another.

ISBN:
9780192607584
9780192607584
Category:
Philosophy of language
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-07-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
OUP Oxford

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