Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Nicla Vassallo
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2013/3
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 61-74 File size 97 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2013-003005
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In the present essay the author connects a minimalist solution of the problem of global skepticism (i.e., Cartesian’s cogito ergo sum), endorsed by Frege, to three different notions of thinking envisaged by Frege himself: logical thinking, psychological thinking, and logical-psychological thinking. Dummett does not acknowledge that Frege has any interest in thinking. For Dummett, this would be a sure sign of psychologism. Against Dummett (by the way, one of his main tenets is that Frege disregards epistemology), the author tries to see how the above minimalist solution can be psychologized/naturalized, once it is considered at the light of Frege’s three conceptions of thinking. The author concludes that the minimalist solution cannot be psychologized/ naturalized, also because Frege’s conception of psychology is unable to confer the status of a real science to psychology itself.
Keywords: Cogito ergo sum, Frege, Naturalism, Thinking, Psychology, Skepticism.
Nicla Vassallo, Naturalizzazione e scetticismo globale. Il caso di Gottlob Frege in "PARADIGMI" 3/2013, pp 61-74, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2013-003005