Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-7838-6 • Hardback • November 2014 • $113.00 • (£87.00)
978-0-7391-7839-3 • eBook • November 2014 • $107.00 • (£82.00)
Pieranna Garavaso is professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
Nicla Vassallo is professor of philosophy at the University of Genova.
Chapter One. Introduction
Chapter Two. The Many Faces of Anti-Psychologism
Chapter Three. Frege’s Thinking
Chapter Four. Frege’s Epistemology
Chapter Five. Thinking and Language
Chapter Six. Conclusion
Given the large literature on Frege, one might believe that it would be impossible to say anything essentially new on the subject. This book contradicts this belief.... This book is a welcome addition to the literature on Frege. It fills the gap that most secondary literature on Frege has left open by not paying close enough attention to what Frege says about thinking. In this way it shows that, despite the large literature on Frege, it is still possible to say something essentially new on the subject.
— History and Philosophy of Logic
In this short book, Pieranna Garavaso and Nicla Vassallo aim to re-focus discussions of Frege toward two neglected aspects of his work.... [T]he heart of Garavaso and Vassallo's book (Chapters 3-4) identifies an important nest of topics which deserve further historical and conceptual exploration, topics which are of deep interest to those working in the history of analytic philosophy and the history of post-Kantian philosophy of mental acts more broadly.
— Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
The book is essential not only for those interested in a new and original reading of Frege's philosophy, but also for anyone engaged in epistemology, logic, psychology, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.
— Zentralblatt MATH
Pieranna Garavaso and Nicla Vassallo make the new and surprising claim that Frege, despite his anti-psychologism, developed a detailed theory of das Denken (thinking). The authors support this claim by careful citation and analysis of texts. They also criticize Dummett, arguing, quite convincingly, that he overemphasized Frege’s stress on the analysis of language and wrongly maintained that Frege ignored epistemology.
— Donald Gillies, University College London
In the literature on Frege, his remarks on thinking are often neglected or misunderstood. This book discusses them in detail and thereby helps complete our understanding of this philosopher.
— Mark Textor, King's College London