Gottlob Frege is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. His writings are difficult and deal with technical, asbtract concepts. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Frege On Sense and Reference helps the student to get to grips with Frege's thought.

Mark Textor is a lecturer in philosophy at King's College London, UK. His main interests are in logic and metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy. He is editor of the The Austrian Contribution to Analytic Philosophy, also published by Routledge (2006).

Introduction 1. Searching for the Foundations of Arithmetic 2. The Begriffsschrift and its Philosophical Background 3. From Subject and Predicate to Argument and Function 4. Splitting up Conceptual Content into Sense and Reference 5. The Sense and Reference of Natural Language Singular Terms 6. The Sense and Reference of an Assertoric Sentence 7. The Sense and Reference of a Concept-Word Bibliography Index