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3206 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Reck, Erich H

Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Philosophy


Biography

 

Degrees

Ph.D. Philosophy 1992

University of Chicago

Awards

2009 National Science Foundation, Scholar's Award
2001-2003, NEH Collaborative Research Award (with Steve Awodey, Carnegie Mellon University), "Frege's Lectures on Logic, 1911-1914".


Research Area

History and Philosophy of Logic; Philosophy of Mathematics; Early Analytic Philosophy

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, forthcoming

"Completeness and Categoricity, Part I: 19th Century Axiomatics to 20th Century Metalogic" (with Steve Awodey), History and Philosophy of Logic, forthcoming

"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

"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)