FOM: Peter Simons' essay on Frege's theory of real numbers

Charles Parsons parsons2 at fas.harvard.edu
Tue Dec 2 09:19:19 EST 1997


At 9:46 PM -0800 11/28/97, Martin Davis wrote:
>Julio Gonzalez Cabillon wrote:
>
>>Peter M. Simons [Institut fuer Philosophie, Universitaet Salzburg] has
>>written an interesting essay entitled "Frege's theory of real numbers"
>>[_History and Philosophy of Logic_, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 25-44, 1987].
>
>This essay has been reprinted in "Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics" edited
>by William Demopoulos, Harvard Univ. Press, 1995,1997.
>
>Martin

There's also discussion of the subject in later chapters of Michael
Dummett's _Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics_ (Harvard UP, 1991). One of
Dummett's chapters is reprinted in Demopoulos' collection.

Charles Parsons






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