Fixing Frege

by John P. Burgess

The great logician Gottlob Frege attempted to provide a purely logical foundation for mathematics. His system collapsed when Bertrand Russell discovered a contradiction in it. Thereafter, mathematicians and logicians, beginning with Russell himself, turned in other directions to look for a framework for modern abstract mathematics. Over the past couple of decades, however, logicians and philosophers have discovered that much more is salvageable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691122318
• ISBN13: 9780691122311
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"