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Pieranna Garavaso and Nicla Vassallo investigate Gottlob Frege's notion of thinking (das Denken) to provide new analysis of a largely unexplored area of the philosopher's work. Frege's conviction that human mental processes should not be regarded as philosophically relevant contrasts with the fact that he paid so much attention to the notion of thought itself. Confronting Frege's deeply seated anti-psychologism, this book claims that the objective human science that Frege proposed can only be possible through a nuanced notion of thinking as neither merely psychological nor merely logical. Garavaso and Vassallo show how language plays an epistemic role for Frege both in its necessary role for thinking and in its representational role for the expression of thoughts. Focusing on what Frege says about thinking ultimately provides insight into his views on the roles of language in expressing thoughts and in fostering the development of human knowledge. This analysis will benefit studies of epistemology, logic, philosophy of mind, psychology, and philosophy of language.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance
• Author: Pieranna Garavaso, Nicla Vassallo
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 138
• EAN: 9780739178386
• ISBN: 0739178385
• ID: 05177213
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Weight: 368 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 232 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. November 2014

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