Against the Current (eBook)

Table of Contents 5
Preface 7
Acknowledgements 16
Introduction 17
(I) First Part: On Husserl, Frege, Carnap and Kripke 29
Chapter 1. On the Interpretation of Frege’s Philosophy 31
Chapter 2. Husserl for Analytic Philosophers 73
Chapter 3. Husserl’s Relevance for the Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics 101
Chapter 4. THE STRUCTURE OF HUSSERL’S PROLEGOMENA 121
Chapter 5. Husserl’s Philosophy of Mathematics: its Origin and Relevance 155
Chapter 6. Husserl’s Conception of Physical Theories and Physical Geometry in the Time of the Prolegomena: A Comparison with Duhem’s and Poincaré’s Views 193
Chapter 7. Husserl and Frege on Strict Proper Names and Indexicals 225
Chapter 8. Platonism, Phenomenology, and Interderivability 245
Chapter 9. On the Interpretation of the Young Carnap’s Philosophy 271
Chapter 10. Necessity a posteriori and Contingency a priori in Kripke: some Critical Remarks 295
(II) Second Part: Some Heterodox Analytic Philosophy 313
Chapter 11. Issues in the Philosophy of Logic: an Unorthodox Approach 315
Chapter 12. Husserl on Analyticity and Beyond 337
Chapter 13. Why and How Platonism? 351
Chapter 14. Some Uses of Logic in Rigorous Philosophy 375
Chapter 15. On First- and Second Order Logic: Ontological Commitment, Logicality and Semantics 395
Chapter 16. On the Semantics of Mathematical Statements 409
Chapter 17. On Necessity and Existence 429
Bibliography 435
Name Index (without Husserl or Frege) 454
Subject Index (with the exception of the almost omnipresent word ‘sense’) 461