Sanford Shieh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1064649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanford Shieh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanford |
| FAMILY NAME | Shieh |
| SIGNATURE | SHIEH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0307-5310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Might Be in the Pure Business of Being True
I argue that Charles Travis’s interpretation of Frege, in Frege: The Pure Business of Being True , as consistent with Travis’s conception of occasion-sensitivity does not in fact require any modal notions, and so is consistent with the amodalist interpretation of Frege I elaborate in Necessity Lost
Necessity Lost
Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy
The recent Tractatus Wars appeared to have been fought over the nature of nonsense and Wittgensteinian methodology, leaving the Tractatus itself largely unscathed. In the present volume of post-War studies, the text of the Tractatus and its philosophical–historical contexts have mostly regained the centre of attention. Roughly, a third of the volume focus solely on the influence of Russell and Frege, especially on how Russell's struggles with his…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's IntroductionThree clusters of philosophically significant issues arise from Frege's discussions of definitions. First, Frege criticizes the definitions of mathematicians of his day, especially those of Weierstrass and Hilbert. Second, central to Frege's philosophical discussion and technical execution of logicism is the so-called Hume's Principle, considered in The Foundations of Arithmetic. Some varieties of neo-Fregean logicism are bas…
The Anti-realist's Past
Frege on Definitions
This article treats three aspects of Frege's discussions of definitions. First, I survey Frege's main criticisms of definitions in mathematics. Second, I consider Frege's apparent change of mind on the legitimacy of contextual definitions and its significance for recent neo-Fregean logicism. In the remainder of the article I discuss a critical question about the definitions on which Frege's proofs of the laws of arithmetic depend: do the logical …
The Limits of Logical Empiricism
The Limits of Logical Empiricism
This volume brings together a selection of the most philosophically significant papers of Arthur Pap. As Sanford Shieh explains in the Introduction to this volume, Pap’s work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This role goes beyond the merely historical fact that Pap’s views of dispositional and modal concepts were influential. As a sympathetic critic of logical empiricism, Pap, like Quine, saw a deep tension i…
Reason's Nearest Kin
Book Review| July 01 2002 Reason's Nearest Kin Michael Potter, Reason's Nearest Kin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x+305. Sanford Shieh Sanford Shieh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 442–447. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-442 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sanford Shieh; Reason's Nearest Kin…
Reason's Nearest Kin
On the Conceptual Foundations of Anti-Realism
Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics
Introduction, William Demopoulos appendix, John L. Bell. Part 1 The intellectual background to Frege's logicism: Kant, Bolzano and the emergence of logicism, Alberto Coffa Frege - the last logicist, Paul Benacerraf Frege and the rigorization of analysis, William Demopoulos Frege and arbitrary functions, John P. Burgess Frege - the royal road from geometry - postscript, Mark Wilson. Part 2 The mathematical content of Begriffsschrift and Grundlagen…
Frege on Definitions
This article treats three aspects of Frege's discussions of definitions. First, I survey Frege's main criticisms of definitions in mathematics. Second, I consider Frege's apparent change of mind on the legitimacy of contextual definitions and its significance for recent neo-Fregean logicism. In the remainder of the article I discuss a critical question about the definitions on which Frege's proofs of the laws of arithmetic depend: do the logical …
Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics
Introduction, William Demopoulos appendix, John L. Bell. Part 1 The intellectual background to Frege's logicism: Kant, Bolzano and the emergence of logicism, Alberto Coffa Frege - the last logicist, Paul Benacerraf Frege and the rigorization of analysis, William Demopoulos Frege and arbitrary functions, John P. Burgess Frege - the royal road from geometry - postscript, Mark Wilson. Part 2 The mathematical content of Begriffsschrift and Grundlagen…
On the Conceptual Foundations of Anti-Realism
Reason's Nearest Kin
Book Review| July 01 2002 Reason's Nearest Kin Michael Potter, Reason's Nearest Kin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x+305. Sanford Shieh Sanford Shieh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 442–447. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-442 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sanford Shieh; Reason's Nearest Kin…
Reason's Nearest Kin
The Limits of Logical Empiricism
The Limits of Logical Empiricism
This volume brings together a selection of the most philosophically significant papers of Arthur Pap. As Sanford Shieh explains in the Introduction to this volume, Pap’s work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This role goes beyond the merely historical fact that Pap’s views of dispositional and modal concepts were influential. As a sympathetic critic of logical empiricism, Pap, like Quine, saw a deep tension i…
The Anti-realist's Past
Frege on Definitions
This article treats three aspects of Frege's discussions of definitions. First, I survey Frege's main criticisms of definitions in mathematics. Second, I consider Frege's apparent change of mind on the legitimacy of contextual definitions and its significance for recent neo-Fregean logicism. In the remainder of the article I discuss a critical question about the definitions on which Frege's proofs of the laws of arithmetic depend: do the logical …
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's IntroductionThree clusters of philosophically significant issues arise from Frege's discussions of definitions. First, Frege criticizes the definitions of mathematicians of his day, especially those of Weierstrass and Hilbert. Second, central to Frege's philosophical discussion and technical execution of logicism is the so-called Hume's Principle, considered in The Foundations of Arithmetic. Some varieties of neo-Fregean logicism are bas…
Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy
The recent Tractatus Wars appeared to have been fought over the nature of nonsense and Wittgensteinian methodology, leaving the Tractatus itself largely unscathed. In the present volume of post-War studies, the text of the Tractatus and its philosophical–historical contexts have mostly regained the centre of attention. Roughly, a third of the volume focus solely on the influence of Russell and Frege, especially on how Russell's struggles with his…
Necessity Lost
What Might Be in the Pure Business of Being True
I argue that Charles Travis’s interpretation of Frege, in Frege: The Pure Business of Being True , as consistent with Travis’s conception of occasion-sensitivity does not in fact require any modal notions, and so is consistent with the amodalist interpretation of Frege I elaborate in Necessity Lost
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (6 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (4 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (3 works) · Analytic philosophy (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works)