Thomas Ricketts

Thomas Grant Ricketts (born 1949) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He was an early and very prominent researcher in the history of analytic philosophy.

Education and career

Tom Ricketts received his BA from Oberlin College and PhD from the University of Michigan. He taught at Harvard University (1976–79), the University of Pennsylvania (1979–2003), and Northwestern University (2003–2005) before coming to the University of Pittsburgh in 2005.

Philosophical work

Ricketts is co-editor (with Michael Potter) of The Cambridge Companion to Frege. He has published extensively on Frege, Russell, early Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Quine.

Selected Publications

Books

• The Cambridge Companion to Frege, Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN ‎978-0521624282 (with Michael Potter).

Articles

• "Analysis, Independence, Simplicity, and the General Sentence-Form," Philosophical Topics 42 (2014): 263–288.
• "Roots of Ontological Relativity," American Philosophical Quarterly 48 (2011): 287–300.
• "Frege, Carnap, and Quine: Continuities and Discontinuities," in Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena, ed. Steve Awodey and Carsten Klein (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 2004), pp. 181–202.
• "Quantification, Sentences, and Truth-values," Manuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofia 26 (2003): 389–424.
• "Wittgenstein Against Frege and Russell," in From Frege to Wittgenstein: Essays on Early Analytic Philosophy, ed. Erich Reck (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 227–251.
• "Truth and Propositional Unity in Early Russell," in Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, ed. Juliet Floyd and Sanford Shieh (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 101–121.
• "Frege's 1906 Foray into Metalogic," Philosophical Topics 25 (1997): 169–187.
• "Logic and Truth in Frege," The Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 70 (1996): 121–140.
• "Objectivity and Objecthood: Frege’s Metaphysics of Judgment," in Frege Synthesized, ed. L. Haaparanta and J. Hintikka (Dordrecht: Springer, 1986), pp. 65–95.
• "Frege, The Tractatus, and the Logocentric Predicament," Nous 19 (1985): 3–15.

External links

• Ricketts webpage at the University of Pittsburgh (https://www.philosophy.pitt.edu/people/ant-11)
• Works by Thomas Ricketts at PhilPapers (https://philpapers.org/rec/RICCOA-3)

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