ABSTRACT

Frege is now regarded as one of the world's greatest philosophers, and the founder of modern logic. Mark Sainsbury argues that we must depart considerably from Frege's views if we are to work towards an adequate conception of natural language. This is an outstanding contribution to philosophy of language and logic and will be invaluable to all those interested in Frege and the philosophy of language.

chapter |28 pages

Introduction: Departing from Frege

chapter 2|28 pages

Evans on reference (1985)

chapter 3|14 pages

Concepts without boundaries (1990)

chapter 4|17 pages

Russell on names and communication (1993)

chapter 5|10 pages

How can some thing say something? (1996)

chapter 6|13 pages

Easy possibilities (1997)

chapter 7|12 pages

Fregean sense (1997)

chapter 8|22 pages

Indexicals and reported speech (1998)

chapter 10|11 pages

Knowing meanings and knowing entities (2001)

chapter 2|13 pages

Two ways to smoke a cigarette (2001)

chapter 12|19 pages

Sense without reference (2001)