Waldemar Rohloff
University of Missouri - St. Louis
"Frege's Transcendental Logic"
Abstract:
Understanding the relationship between Kant’s
logic and Frege’s begriffschrift is crucial for assessing the sense in which
Frege’s purely logical development of arithmetic constitutes a reply to Kant’s
own view on which arithmetic requires intuition. Traditionally, it is Kant’s
general logic that is compared with Frege’s. In contrast I approach the
comparison from the perspective of Kant’s transcendental logic. I find that
Frege’s logic shares similar epistemological goals with Kant’s transcendental
logic. In this sense we see a kind of continuity between Kant and Frege. This
allows us to compare their views on arithmetic in a new light and also sheds a
new perspective on Frege’s position in the analytic tradition.