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68Frege on Existential PropositionsGrazer Philosophische Studien 41 (1): 127-149. 1991.Frege's advances in the development of quantification have rarely been subjected to historical interpretation. While the characterization of existence as a second-order concept awaited the invention of the Begriffsschrift, important philosophical innovations had taken place since Kant's critique of the ontological argument. In particular, Herbart had re-conceptualized the nature of existential judgement and this was recognized and adopted by Brentano. In this light, thepossible influence of Herb…Read more
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37Multicultural Dynamics and the End of History: Exploring Kant, Hegel and Marx, by Real Fillion. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2008. Pp. 186. ISBN 0-77660670-0 (review)Kantian Review 13 (2): 151-153. 2008.
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4The Further Question: Frege, Husserl and the Neo-Kantian ParadigmHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 5. 2002.Once upon a time, Frege influenced Husserl. More precisely, Frege's scathing review of Philosophie der Arithmetik induced Husserl to abandon his commitment to logical psychologism. There are many different reasons for dismissing this traditional tale. Yet at least one widely circulated claim cannot be upheld, for it is rooted in the false belief that Frege held logic to be an essentially normative science. Rather, Frege and Husserl are united by their shared conception of logic as the maximally …Read more
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4Frege and the Neo-Kantian ParadigmDissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago. 1990.Frege's historical milieu is investigated under the rubric of the "neo-Kantian paradigm." This term is used loosely to describe those philosophers in the fourth generation after Kant who went back to Kant in protest to the vulgar or scientific materialism which had prevailed in the previous decades. This paradigm is characterized in a linguistic or conceptual fashion, after the historical precedent of the so-called "Cambridge school" . ;Frege's relation to the neo-Kantians of his own day, to Lot…Read more
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72Frege's ‘On the Concept of Number’ – an unnoticed publicationBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (4): 764-768. 2016.ABSTRACTA short piece by Frege, heretofore overlooked, containing a précis of his views on the concept of number, is presented, after some very brief questions about Frege's possible involvement in the wider intellectual milieu.
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