Word and Object in Husserl, Frege, and Russell : The Roots of Twentieth-Century Philosophy Paperback / softback

by Claire Oritz Hill

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In search of the origins of some of the most fundamental problems that have beset philosophers in English-speaking countries in the past century, Claire Ortiz Hill maintains that philosophers are treating symptoms of ills whose causes lie buried in history.

Substantial linguistic hurdles have blocked access to Gottlob Fregeâ€™s thought and even to Bertrand Russellâ€™s work to remedy the problems he found in it.

Misleading translations of key concepts like intention, content, presentation, idea, meaning, concept, etc., severed analytic philosophy from its roots. Hill argues that once linguistic and historical barriers are removed, Edmund Husserlâ€™s critical study of Fregeâ€™s logic in his 1891 Philosophy of Arithmetic provides important insights into issues in philosophy now. She supports her conclusions with analyses of Fregeâ€™s, Husserlâ€™s, and Russellâ€™s works, including Principia Mathematica, and with linguistic analyses of the principal concepts of analytic philosophy.

She re-establishes links that existed between English and Continental thought to show Husserlâ€™s expertise as a philosopher of mathematics and logic who had been Weierstrassâ€™s assistant and had long maintained ties with Cantor, Hilbert, and Zermelo.