The Reason's Proper Study: Essays towards a Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics

by Bob Hale, Crispin Wright

Overview

Here, Bob Hale and Crispin Wright assemble the key writings that lead to their distinctive neo-Fregean approach to the philosophy of mathematics. In addition to fourteen previously published papers, the volume features a new paper on the Julius Caesar problem; a substantial new introduction mapping out the program and the contributions made to it by the various papers; a section explaining which issues most require further attention; and bibliographies of references and further useful sources. It will be recognized as the most powerful presentation yet of a neo-Fregean program.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199266326
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Bob Hale is Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Crispin Wright is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, and Wardlaw Professor, at the University of St Andrews.

Table of Contents

Origins of the EssaysIntroductionI. Ontology and Abstraction Principles1. Singular Terms (1), Bob Hale2. Singular Terms (2), Bob Hale3. Why Frege Does Not Deserve His Grain of Salt: A Note on the Paradox of 'The Concept Horse' and the Ascription of Bedeutungen to Predicates, Crispin Wright4. Grundlagen 64, Bob Hale5. Implicit Definition and the A Priori, Bob Hale and Crispin WrightII. Responses to Critics6. Field and Fregean Platonism, Crispin Wright7. Is Platonism Epistemologically Bankrupt?, Bob Hale8. Dummett's Critique of Wright's Attempt to Resuscitate Frege, Bob Hale9. Critical Notice of Michael Dummett's Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics, Crispin WrightIII. Hume's Principle10. On the Harmless Impredicativity of Hume's Principle, Crispin Wright11. Response to Dummett, Crispin Wright12. On the Philosophical Significance of Frege's Theorem, Crispin Wright13. Is Hume's Principle Analytic?, Crispin WrightIV. On the Differentiation of Abstracta14. To Bury Caesar..., Bob Hale and Crispin WrightV. Beyond Number-theory15. Reals by Abstraction, Bob HalePostscript: Seventeen ProblemsBibliographyBibliography of further relevant writingsIndex