What's puzzling gottlob frege?

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 159-200

  Thau, Mike ^a   Caplan, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 70449799462     PISSN: 00455091     EISSN: 19110820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2001.10717564     Document Type: Article

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1. For support in the form of a Doctoral Fellowship (# 752-98-0363), thanks from the second author to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. For comments and discussion, thanks from both authors to the editors of, and anonymous referees for, the Canadian journal of Philosophy and also to Kent Bach, Glenn Branch, Tyler Burge, Louis Derosset, David Kaplan, Sean Kelsey, Robert May, Scott Soames, and especially Mark Kalderon.
2. 'Ober Sinn und Bedeutung', Zeitschrift für Philisophie und philosophische Kritik 100 (1892) 25-50.
3. The essay was translated by Max Black as 'On Sense and Meaning' in Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, 3rd ed., Peter T. Geach and Max Black, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell 1980) 56-78.
4. It Was reprinted as 'On Sinn and Bedeutung' in The Frege Reader, Michael Beaney, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell 1997) 151-71.
5. We use 'name' (or 'sign') as Frege does to include all singular terms. See 'Sense and Reference', 27.
6. See Michael Dummett, Frege: Philosophy of Language, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1981), 544;
7. Nathan Salmon, Frege's Puzzle (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 1986), 51-4;
8. Hans Sluga, Gottlob Frege (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980), 149-61;
9. and Joan Weiner, Frege (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999), 91-2.
10. See David Kaplan, 'Words', Supplement to the Aristotelian Society 64 (1990) 93-119, at 118. 6 Begriffsschrift, eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des revnen Derikens (Halle: Nebert 1879).
11. Preface and Part I trans, by Michael Beaney as 'Begriffsschrift: A Formula Language of Pure Thought Modelled on that of Arithmetic' in The Frege Reader, 47-78.
12. The notion of a directly referential expression is developed in David Kaplan, 'Demonstratives: An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals', Themes from Kaplan, Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press 1989) 481-563.
13. See Avrum Stroll, 'Identity', Encyclopedia of Philosophy vol. 4, Paul Edwards, ed. (New York: Macmillan 1967) 123-4;
14. Jan Dejnožka, 'Frege on Identity', International Studies in Philosophy 13. 1 (1981) 31-41, at 31-6
15. and The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and its Origins: Realism and Identity in Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Quine (Lanham, MD: Littlefield Adams 1996), 42-65;
16. Gregory Currie, Frege: An Introduction to his Philosophy (Brighton: Harvester 1982), 98-100 and 108-12;
17. and Thomas V. Morris, Understanding Identity Statements (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press 1984), s27-34.
18. See his letter to Husserl, 'Prege an Husserl 24.5.1891', Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel, Gottfried Gabriel et al., eds. (Hamburg: Meiner 1976) 94-8, at 97;
19. trans, by Hans Kaal as 'Frege to Husserl 24.5.1891' in Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence, Brian McGuirmess, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell 1980) 61-4
20. and reprinted in part as 'Letter to Husserl 24.5.1891' in The Frege Reader 149-50.
21. See also 'Uber Begriff und Gegenstand', Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliehe Philosophie 16 (1892) 192-205, at 198;
22. trans, by Max Black as 'On Concept and Object' in Translations from the Philosophical Writings, 42-55
23. and reprinted in The Frege Reader, 181-93.
24. And see Grundgesetze der Arithmetik begriffsscbriftlich abgeleitet [The Bask Laws of Arithmetic] vol. 1 (Jena: Pohle 1893), X and §5, 9 n. T;
25. Preface, Introduction, and §§1-7, 26-9, and 32-3 trans
26. by Michael Beaney in The Frege Reader, 194-223.
27. See Function und Begriff: Vortag, gehalten in der Sitzungvom 9. Januar 1891 der Jenaischen Gesellschaft für Medizin und Naturwissenschaft (Jena: Pohle 1891), 3;
28. trans, by Peter T. Geach as "Function and Concept' in Translations from the Philosophical Writings, 21-41
29. and reprinted in The Frege Reader, 130-48.
30. Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik eine logisch-mathematische Untersuchung uber den Begriff der Zahl (Breslau: Koebner 1884);
31. trans, by J. L. Austin as The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number, 2nd ed. (Evaston, IL: Northwestern University Press 1980)
32. Grundgesetze der Arithmetik: begriffsschriftlich abgeleitet [The Basic Laws of Arithmetic] vol. 2 (Jena: Pohle 1903), §105, 113. §§56-67, 138-47
33. trans, by Michael Beaney in The Frege Reader, 258-89. §§86-137
34. trans, by Max Black as 'Frege Against the Formalists' in Translations from the Philosophical Writings, 162-213.
35. Stephen Bernhardt, 'Frege on Identity', Journal of Critical Analysis 8. 4 (1980) 57-65, at 61-4
36. 'Frege an Peano ohne Datum', Wissenschaftlicher Brieftvechsel 194-8, at 197;
37. trans, by Hans Kaal as 'Frege to Peano undated', in Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence, 125-9
38. Thomae's objection in Elementary Function Theory from 1898 is that 'if equality or the equality sign = were only to stand for identity, then we would be left with trivial knowledge, or if one prefers, the conceptual necessity a is a (a = a)' (quoted in The Basic Laws vol. 2, §138, 140).
39. For a detailed discussion of Frege's view, in 'Sense and Reference' and elsewhere, that sentences refer to truth-values, see Tyler Burge, 'Frege on Truth', in Frege Synthesized: Essays on the Philosophical and Foundational Work of Gottlob Frege, Leila Haaparanta and Jaakko Hintikka, eds. (Dordrecht: Reidel 1986) 97-154, at 97-123