Russell's "On Denoting" and Frege's "On Sense and Reference" are
now widely held to be two of the founding papers of 20th-century
philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". They
have generated a wealth of secondary literature and remain at the
forefront of contemporary discussion in philosophy of language,
thought and logic. This book challenges the accepted understanding
of these two seminal papers. It forces us to reconsider
contemporary approaches to the semantics of proper names and
definite descriptions through a historically sensitive
interpretation of Russell's and Frege's work on meaning. Gideon
Makin compares the work Russell did shortly before his famous essay
"On Denoting" with the essay itself and argues that this comparison
shows that the traditional view of the problem Russell was trying
to solve is untenable. Makin then examines Frege's classic essay
and argues that some of the less well-known views that Frege held
have radical implications for our understanding of this essay.
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