Themes from Early Analytic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Künne

This volume contains fifteen essays in honour of Wolfgang Künne. The essays deal with issues from the philosophy of language and logic, broadly conceived. They cover topics ranging from truth, reference, and the ontology of abstract objects, to action, intentionality, and speech acts. By taking into account the works of early analytic philosophers-including Bolzano, Frege, Peirce, Husserl, and Wittgenstein-they foster our understanding of the history of the ideas discussed, while at the same time contributing to the systematic debate. The collection also includes an up-to-date bibliography of Künne's published work. Title Page......Page 3 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Wolfgang Künne: Bibliography......Page 12 I. Truth and Assertion......Page 19 Truth and the Determination of Content: Variations on Themes from Frege’s Logische Untersuchungen......Page 20 Truth-Bearers and Modesty......Page 66 Logical Truth and Logical Form......Page 93 “It Falls Somewhat Short of Logical Precision.” Bolzano on Kant’s Definition of Analyticity......Page 107 II. Concepts and Propositions......Page 144 A Cognitivist Approach to Concepts......Page 145 Thoughts without Parts: Frege’s Doctrine......Page 178 Bolzano on the Intransparency of Content......Page 202 Nothing but Objects......Page 222 III. Cognition and Volition......Page 251 Cognitive Operations and the Multifarious Reifications of the Unreal......Page 252 Meaning Something and Meanings......Page 266 Wittgenstein on Action and the Will......Page 296 Platonism and the Argument from Causality......Page 324 Frege, Pünjer, and Kant on Existence......Page 338 Numbers as Ontologically Dependent Objects. Hume’s Principle Revisited......Page 361 Sense-Only-Signs: Frege on Fictional Proper Names......Page 382