Taking Frege at his Word

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Joan Weiner (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Indiana University)

Taking Frege at his Word

Joan Weiner (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Indiana University)

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Oxford University Press
24 December 2020

Philosophy of language; History of Western philosophy; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy: logic; Mathematical logic

Frege is widely regarded as having set much of the agenda of contemporary analytic philosophy. As standardly read, he meant to introduce--and make crucial contributions to--the project of giving an account of the workings of (an improved version of) natural language. Yet, despite the great admiration most contemporary philosophers feel for Frege, it is widely believed that he committed a large number of serious, and inexplicable, blunders. For, if Frege really meant to be constructing a theory of the workings of (some version of) natural language, then a significant number of his stated views--including views that he claimed to be central to his philosophical picture--are straightforwardly wrong. But did Frege mean to be giving an account of the workings of language? He himself never actually claimed to be doing this, and, indeed, never even described such a project.

Taking Frege at his Word offers an interpretation that is based on a different approach to his writings. Rather than using the contributions he is taken to have made to contemporary work in the philosophy of language to infer what his projects were, Joan Weiner gives priority to Frege's own accounts of what he means to be doing. She provides a very different view of Frege's project. One might suspect that, on such a reading, Frege's writings would have purely antiquarian interest, but this would be a mistake. The final two chapters show that Frege offers us new ways of addressing some of the philosophical problems that worry us today.

By: Joan Weiner (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Indiana University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198865476
ISBN 10: 0198865473
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 24 December 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joan Weiner is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University.

Reviews for Taking Frege at his Word

offers an important correction to conclusions that one may be too willing to draw about Frege ... useful to anyone interested in the history of analytic philosophy. * Gregory Lavers, Metascience *