The Conception of Subjectivity in Frege

Mario Ariel González Porta

In what follows I intend to make it plausible that Frege has a certain conception of subjectivity and evidence its main features. This obviously implies the controversial and provocative thesis that there is a conception of subjectivity in Frege, which is totally against the consensus that Frege has no interest in this subject.

I will base my thesis on three types of arguments that, in the end, are interrelated, namely:

a. the consideration of texts that have been either overlooked or neglected in some of their aspects;

b. the attention to the reciprocal relationship of these texts, which, when so considered, show a coherent whole (something that is lost sight of considering them as mere isolated curiosities);

c. and, finally, the placement of these texts in their historical-philosophical context, appealing for this to the comparison with other authors.