Essays on Frege’s Basic Laws of Arithmetic
- Submitting institution
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University of Stirling
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 1529981
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- ISBN
- 9780198712084
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The submitted volume is the first collection of original essays focused on Gottlob Frege's Basic Laws of Arithmetic (1893/1903). It brings together 22 internationally renowned Frege scholars whose contributions discuss topics arising from both volumes of Frege’s magnum opus. The submitted work follows on from Ebert’s 2013 publication of the first full English translation of Basic Laws of Arithmetic (OUP), which Ebert translated, edited, and typeset together with Marcus Rossberg and with the assistance of Crispin Wright. The present volume – again a collaboration with Rossberg – was devised and initiated by Ebert and Rossberg who had equal and joint responsibility in all editorial processes (identifying, inviting and selecting contributions; refereeing each contribution in addition to referees chosen by OUP, and typesetting each chapter). Ebert and Rossberg also contributed two original jointly-authored articles to the volume (Chs 13 and 22), with Ebert playing a full and equal role in their joint authorship. Chapter 13 highlights the importance of widely ignored and previously untranslated passages in Frege’s Basic Laws of Arithmetic for the wider context of the thriving debate about Frege’s platonism; these passages have recently become a focus of Frege scholarship. Chapter 22 is a historical contribution based on original bibliographical research that for the first time collects and translates all contemporary reviews of Frege’s Basic Laws of Arithmetic. It includes a new, much improved translation of Giuseppe Peano’s detailed discussion of Frege’s work. Amongst the 22 contributions is also one by Ebert’s Stirling colleague Crispin Wright, entitled “How did the serpent of inconsistency enter Frege’s paradise?”, that reinvigorates a discussion initiated by Dummett and Boolos about the origins of the paradox in Frege’s logicism and argues that a non-syntactic constraint on impredicative comprehension is the most promising candidate to stabilise Frege’s project in Basic Laws of Arithmetic.
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