Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later

Gottlob Frege's Über Sinn und Bedeutung (`On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of Frege's writings on logic and mathematics, came to mark out a whole new domain of inquiry. This volume bears witness to the continuing importance and influence of that agenda. It contains original papers written by leading Frege scholars for the conference held in 1992 in Karlovy Vary to celebrate the publication of Frege's essay. The fourteen essays show how the questions Frege discusses in that essay connect intimately with issues much debated in current philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Klappentext

Gottlob Frege's Ü*ber Sinn und Bedeutung* (`On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of Frege's writings on logic and mathematics, came to mark out a whole new domain of inquiry. This volume bears witness to the continuing importance and influence of that agenda. It contains original papers written by leading Frege scholars for the conference held in 1992 in Karlovy Vary to celebrate the publication of Frege's essay. The fourteen essays show how the questions Frege discusses in that essay connect intimately with issues much debated in current philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Inhalt

Preface. Three Puzzles in Frege's Theory of Truth; T. Baldwin. Truth and Sense; G. Segal. Frege and Chomsky: Sense and Psychologism; B. Smith. Meaning and the Third Realm; P. Kotatko. Putnam's Doctrine of Natural Kind Words and Frege's Doctrines of Sense, Reference and Extension: Can They Cohere? D. Wiggins. Concept-Reference and Kinds; A. Grayling. The Communication of First Person Thoughts; F. Recanati. Transparency, Sense and Self-Knowledge; T. Stoneham. The Sense and Reference of Evaluative Terms; C. Tappolet. The Next Best Thing to Sense in Begriffsschrift; P. Simons. Understanding Names; D. Owens. Why is Frege's Puzzle Still Puzzling? E. Corazza, J. Dokic. The Frege Puzzle One More Time; M. Hahn. The Neo-Fregean Argument; J. Biro. Index.