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.
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Selected Essays
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ISBN
9780192607584
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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