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Philosophy of Language

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Champions of the first approach are authors such as Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Paul Grice, and Willard Quine; the second approach was particularly influenced by the figures of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur ... According instead to the truth-conditions-view – defended in modern times by Gottlob Frege, Alfred Tarski and ......

The Analytic-Continental Split

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
The Analytic Tradition ... Gottlob Frege and, later, Ludwig Wittgenstein, stand out in the German and Austrian traditions ... First, the use of logic to address philosophical questions; the advancements brought to logic by Frege, Russell, and the Polish logicians allowed the positing of novel perspectives on language and reality, such as the theory of facts proposed by Wittgenstein in his first major work, the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus....

Alice Meets the Tweedles - Ch.4 of Through the Looking Glass

Edit About.com 13 Aug 2015
On Sense and reference. Having left “the wood where things have no names,” Alice walks along a road. She went on and on a long way, but whenever the road divided there were sure to be two finger-posts pointing the same way, one marked “To TWEEDLEDUM’S HOUSE”, and the other “TO THE HOUSE OF TWEEDLEDEE.” ... Alice may be wrong, of course ... This distinction is the subject of a famous essay by the German philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848 – 1925)....

Gottlob Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tartu (University of Tartu)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jun 2015
(Source. University of Tartu). Jennifer Saul's 2015 Frege Lectures, "Language that Matters ... June 30. ... July 1. ... The Gottlob Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy are named in honour of the German mathematician and philosopher Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege. We have chosen Frege as the patron for our lecture series as he is widely recognised for his clarity and unpretentious, no-nonsense style of dealing with philosophical problems....

Gottlob Frege Lecturs in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tartu (University of Tartu)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Jun 2015
(Source. University of Tartu). Jennifer Saul's 2015 Frege Lectures, "Language that Matters ... June 30. ... July 1. ... The Gottlob Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy are named in honour of the German mathematician and philosopher Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege. We have chosen Frege as the patron for our lecture series as he is widely recognised for his clarity and unpretentious, no-nonsense style of dealing with philosophical problems....

AnalyticsWeek Launching Analytics Awareness Week, July 27-31, 2015

Edit Seattle Post 28 May 2015
A week targeted to promote analytical thinking, along with bringing data & analytics driven executives, professionals and businesses closer. Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 28, 2015. AnalyticsWeek, with the help of its wide partner network of 90+ businesses and 10,000 community members is launching Analytics[AWARENESS]Week ... One week to honor Gottlob Frege's work on building Analytics Philosophy in businesses ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... About AnalyticsWeek....

What's in a name? Great expectations. Just ask your baby.

Edit Huffington Post 22 Apr 2015
On the other hand, the German mathematician, logician and philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) has a philosophy of names that squares more with the participants' views. Frege claimed that a proper name is oh so much more than just a name; it tells a story, describes something about us ... When someone or something is given a proper name, Frege considers the naming ceremonial in nature....

Why Read Heidegger?>

Edit Huffington Post 29 Jan 2015
On the initiative of the Bibliot�que National de France, the review La R�gle du Jeu, and two young philosophers, Joseph Cohen and Rapha�l Zagury-Orly, a major symposium was held last week on the subject of Heidegger and "the Jews." ... Is their publication really the event it has been chalked up to be? ... I don't think so ... It is the entire "linguistic turn" in contemporary philosophy suggested by Gottlob Frege that must be considered here....

Major Works of 19th Century Philosophy

Edit About.com 24 Jan 2015
The 19th century was an especially exiting period in the history of thought as philosophers tried to understand a world turned upside down by the American and French revolutions and continuing to change dramatically as the industrial revolution took hold. Here is a short list of of some of the most original and influential thinkers of the period along with their most important works ... Either/Or (1843) ... Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925)....

This Sentence is Wrong (Technische Universität Wien)

Edit noodls 23 Jun 2014
(Source. Technische Universität Wien) "All Cretans are liars", said Epimenides, a Cretan. But this means that his statement must be a lie too. But then it is false that Cretans are liars and the statement must be true. So what now? ... Gottlob Frege struggled with this problem, when he was trying to use set theory to create a new, solid foundation for mathematics ... Frege was heartstricken and finally gave up his work on set theory ... His result....

Peter Geach obituary

Edit The Guardian 26 Dec 2013
Photograph. Steve Pyke/Getty Images ... His and Max Black's translation of works by the German mathematician and logician Gottlob Frege appeared in 1952 ... He made what he called "the Frege point", and later came to be called the Frege-Geach point, commenting that the word "wrong" in the sentence "If Bill did wrong, he will be punished," has the same meaning whether or not the person saying this believes that Bill did wrong ... ....

Pilgrimage with Simon Reeve; The Joy of Logic – TV review

Edit The Guardian 04 Dec 2013
Is this really a pilgrimage – or just a very long walk? Simon Reeve is in a bit of muddle. Pilgrimage with Simon Reeve. will it improve when he leaves Britain? Photograph. BBC/Lion TV/Richard Pearson ... So why not?. His first leg took him from Lindisfarne to Canterbury ... Thereafter, it rather tailed off ... But he didn't. And I could see why ... Poor old Gottlob Frege thought he had it cracked before Bertrand Russell found a flaw in one of his sets ... ....
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