Ernst Cassirer’s sui generis Logicism: on the reception of the Logicist Thesis and its role in Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff

Abstract

In this article we aim to explore some aspects on Ernst Cassirer’s logicism. In order to fulfill such task, we will initiate our analyses with the reception of the logicist thesis in the origins of Cassirer’s theoretical context, showing firstly the importance assumed by the mentioned thesis in two of its most important figures (Frege and Russell) and, secondly, to show Cassirer’s critique on then and his defense on Dedekind. Then, we will resume the role played by Cassirer’s predecessors in Marburg (Cohen and Natorp) and their innovators Transcendental Method and Transcendental Logic on the sui generis Logicism of our author.