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274This paper defends an interpretation of Gottlob Frege’s views on the structure of thought. I argue that Frege did not think that a thought has a unique decomposition into its component senses, but rather the same thought can be decomposed into senses in multiple, distinct ways. These multiple decompositions will often have distinct logical forms. I also argue against Michael Dummett and others that Frege was committed to the sense of a predicate being a function from the sense of a name (or name…Read more
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316Thoughts about Thoughts: The Structure of Fregean PropositionsDissertation, Columbia University. 2019.This dissertation is about the structure of thought. Following Gottlob Frege, I define a thought as the sort of content relevant to determining whether an assertion is true or false. The historical component of the dissertation involves interpreting Frege’s actual views on the structure of thought. I argue that Frege did not think that a thought has a unique decomposition into its component senses, but rather the same thought can be decomposed into senses in a variety of distinct ways. I extend …Read more
APA Eastern Division
New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Gottlob Frege |
Philosophy of Language |
Immanuel Kant |