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The course will be an introduction
to the analytic tradition of Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein.
The orientation to the tradition is from the perspective of its
doctrines concerning arithmetic and logic. This will form the context
in which the methodology of analysis will be studied. The basic text of
the course is Frege’s Foundations of arithmetic. Although Frege’s is
the main text, later authors will be included to illuminate the
problems Frege sought to address, the views he advanced, and the
difficulties his views faced. A syllabus outlining the topics of the
lectures will be distributed at the first class.
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