New Essays on Frege

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Zwischen Dichtung und Wissenschaft

   • Gisela Bengtsson

   Pages 1-7

3. Science and Fiction: A Fregean Approach

   • Gottfried Gabriel

   Pages 9-22

4. Frege’s Unquestioned Starting Point: Logic as Science

   • Jan Harald Alnes

   Pages 23-46

5. Frege, the Normativity of Logic, and the Kantian Tradition

   • Anssi Korhonen

   Pages 47-74

6. Frege’s Critique of Formalism

   • Sören Stenlund

   Pages 75-86

7. Why Is Frege’s Judgment Stroke Superfluous?

   • Martin Gustafsson

   Pages 87-99

8. Frege on Dichtung and Elucidation

   • Gisela Bengtsson

   Pages 101-117

9. Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Frege’s Approach to Fictional Discourse

   • Todor Polimenov

   Pages 119-141

10. The Dichtung of Analytic Philosophy: Wittgenstein’s Legacy from Frege and Its Consequences

    • Allan Janik

    Pages 143-157

11. Agrammaticality

    • Nuno Venturinha

    Pages 159-175

12. Back Matter

    Pages 177-185

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This volume collects nine essays that investigate the work of Gottlob Frege. The contributors address Frege’s work in relation to literature and fiction (Dichtung), the humanities (Geisteswissenschaften), and science (Wissenschaft). Overall, the essays consider internal connections between different aspects of Frege’s work while acknowledging the importance of its philosophical context.

There are also further common strands between the papers, such as the relation between Frege’s and Wittgenstein’s approaches to philosophical investigations, the relation between Frege and Kant, and the place of Frege’s work in the philosophical landscape more generally. The volume is therefore of direct relevance to several current debates in philosophy in general, in addition to Frege and Wittgenstein research in particular.

Even though Frege’s great significance for contemporary philosophy is not disputed, the question of how we are to understand the character andaims of his project is debated. The debate has a starting point in Frege’s specific conception of logic. The volume elucidates this conception as well as the relation between natural language and the Begriffsschrift. It will help philosophers, researchers, and students better understand the nuances of this great thinker. By extension, it will also help readers seeking to understand Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophical difficulties and his struggle to find an apt form of presentation for his philosophical investigations.

• Frege Concept Script
• Frege Elucidation
• Frege Fiction
• Frege Logic
• Frege contemporary philosophy
• Frege analytic philosophy
• Frege Darstellungsweise
• Frege semantic theory
• Frege Wittgenstein
• Frege normativity
• Frege Dichtung
• Frege poetry
• Frege formalism mathematics

• Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  Gisela Bengtsson

• Department of Philosophy, The University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  Simo Säätelä, Alois Pichler

Gisela Bengtsson is researcher in Philosophy affiliated to Uppsala University. Her research interests include Wittgenstein’s philosophy, Frege, early analytic philosophy, and philosophy and literature. Since 2017, she is editor of The Nordic Wittgenstein Review. 

Simo Säätelä is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. His research interests include Wittgenstein’s philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of the humanities, and philosophy of mathematics.

 Alois Pichler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen and Head of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen. His research interests include Wittgenstein’s philosophy and works, editorial philology, and digital humanities.

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