Review of History of Philosophy of Science Books

Aspects of  a philosophical school Anna Drabarek, Jan Wole ń ski, and Mateusz M. Radzki (eds.),  Interdisciplinary Investigations into the Lvov-Warsaw School . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.pp. xxi-289.Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-24485-9. €106.99. Historians of philosophy of science already have their preferences. Besides a small group of scholars, people usually do not go beyond the borders of Hungary (and it is represented also rarely and never for its own sake). But philosophy of science, or perhaps better, scientific philosophy was pursued and developed in Eastern Europe as well, especially in Poland. Though this fact is often admitted, detailed investigations are still lagging behind German, Austrian or English studies.       Recently Anna  Drabarek, Jan Wole ń ski,  and Mateusz M. Radzki edited a volume on the  Interdisciplinary Investigations into the Lvov-Warsaw School  in Michael Beaney’s  History of Analytic Philosophy  series. This engaging volume is devoted

The Life or Work of Frege Dale Jacquette,  Frege: A Philosophical Biography.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. PP. xiv + 667. ISBN 978-0-521-86327-8.  £ 35 (hbk) Three years after his sudden and unexpected death, Dale Jacquette’s last book was published by Cambridge University Press. The volume is about one of his long-time heroes, Gottlob Frege, with a special focus on his life and philosophical development. To be more precise, it is a “philosophical biography”, as indicated in the book’s subtitle, the first one in English with such a broad range of topics, arguments, and interest. Jacquette had a deep knowledge of Frege, thus the volume will be invaluable for philosophers.             Consisting of fourteen chapters on almost seven hundred pages, the book follows quite strictly Frege’s life from his birth, childhood, education, first publications, and marriage to the death of his loved ones. In each chapter, Jacquette takes our hand and guides us through the