The Metaphysicians of meaning: Frege and russell on sense and denotation

Russell’s On Denoting and Frege’s On Sense and Reference are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of twentieth century philosophy and form the heart of the famous “linguistic turn�?. The Metaphysicians of Meaning is the first book to challenge the accepted secondary work on these two seminal papers, forcing us to reconsider the interpretation of these two vitally important works on meaning.