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Erich H. Reck
Associate Professor
of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992
HMNSS 3206
erich.reck@ucr.edu
(951) 827-7288
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Research Interests:
- Logic
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Early Analytic Philosophy
Sample Publications:
Books and Collections:
- From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives
on Early Analytic Philosophy, E. Reck,
ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
Recent Articles:
- "Dedekind's Structuralism: An Interpretation
and Partial Defense", Synthese,
forthcoming
- "From Frege and Russell to Carnap: Logic
and Logicism in the 1920s," in S. Awodey &
C. Klein, eds., Rudolf Carnap: From Jena
to L.A., Chicago: Open Court, forthcoming
- "Completeness and Categoricity, Part II:
20th Century Metalogic to 21st Century Semantics"
(with Steve Awodey), History and Philosophy
of Logic 23, No. 2, 2002, pp. 77-94
- "Completeness and Categoricity, Part I:
19th Century Axiomatics to 20th Century Metalogic"
(with Steve Awodey), History and Philosophy
of Logic 23, No. 1, 2002, pp. 1-30
- "Wittgenstein's 'Great Debt' to Frege: Biographical
Traces and Philosophical Themes," in From
Frege to Wittgenstein, E. Reck, ed., Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 3-38
- "Structures and Structuralism in Contemporary
Philosophy of Mathematics" (with Michael P.
Price), Synthese 125, December 2000,
pp. 341-383
- "Freges Platonismus im Kontext," in Gottlob
Frege: Werk und Wirkung, G. Gabriel &
U. Dathe, eds., Paderborn: mentis Verlag,
2000, pp. 71-89
- "Frege's Influence on Wittgenstein: Reversing
Metaphysics via the Context Principle," in
Early Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell,
Wittgenstein, W.W. Tait, ed., Chicago:
Open Court, 1997, pp. 123-185
Other Items:
- "Carnap, Logicism, and Metamathematics",
abstract of symposium talk, Bulletin of
Symbolic Logic, forthcoming
- "Education,
Knowledge, and the World of Objective Ideas:
Some Philosophical Remarks," in Liberal
Education in a Knowledge Society, Barry
Smith, ed., Open Court, Chicago, 2002, pp.
139-173
- "Categoricity and Completeness: from Dedekind
to Carnap and beyond," abstract of symposium
talk, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 7,
September 2001, p. 415
- "'Clarifying the Nature of the Infinite':
The Development of Metamathematics and Proof
Theory" (with Jeremy Avigad), CMU Technical
Report CMU-PHI-120, 2001, pp. 1-53
Work in Progress:
Books and Collections:
- Frege's Lectures on Logic, 1911-1914.
From the Notes of Rudolf Carnap (translation,
with introductory essay and annotations),
E. Reck & S. Awodey, eds. and trans., Chicago:
Open Court (in preparation)
Articles:
- "Frege, Conceptions of Number, and
Arithmetic's Umbilical Cord" (under revision)
Recent Courses:
Lower Division:
- Introduction to Logic [regularly]
Upper Division:
- Formal Logic [regularly]
- Intermediate Logic [regularly]
- Advanced Logic [1997]
- Contemporary Analytic Philosophy [1995]
- Major Philosophers: Bertrand Russell [1997]
Graduate Seminars:
- Models and Truth [1996]
- Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics [1999]
- Origins of Analytic Philosophy [1997]
- Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic
[1996]
- Frege and the Notion of Sense [2001]
- Wittgenstein's Tractatus [1998]
- Wittgenstein and Rule Following [2002]
Recommended Reading:
- Recommended for Summer 2008:
- In connections with classes I might
teach:
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