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Sep 14, 1995 · Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (b. 1848, d. 1925) was a German mathematician, logician, and philosopher who worked at the University of Jena. Frege essentially reconceived the discipline of logic by constructing a formal system which, in effect, constituted the first ‘predicate calculus’.
- Chronological Catalog of Frege's Work
In 1910, Frege sent Jourdain comments on his manuscript....
- Frege's Logic
Second, Frege criticizes the front-running (at the time)...
- Author and Citation Info
Author and Citation Info - Gottlob Frege - Stanford...
- Frege-Hilbert Controversy
The Fregean point of view is that the existence of...
- Frege's Theorem and Foundations for Arithmetic
Frege’s Theorem and Foundations for Arithmetic. First...
- Chronological Catalog of Frege's Work
Frege is widely considered to be the greatest logician since Aristotle, and one of the most profound philosophers of mathematics ever. [11] His contributions include the development of modern logic in the Begriffsschrift and work in the foundations of mathematics.
Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics is a 1991 book about the philosopher Gottlob Frege by the British philosopher Michael Dummett. Reception. Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics has been highly influential. Together with Frege: Philosophy of Language (1973), it is Dummett's chief contribution to Frege scholarship. References
- Michael A. E. Dummett
- 1991
In the philosophy of mathematics, he was one of the most ardent proponents of logicism, the thesis that mathematical truths are logical truths, and presented influential criticisms of rival views such as psychologism and formalism.
Jun 10, 1998 · Frege’s Theorem and Foundations for Arithmetic. First published Wed Jun 10, 1998; substantive revision Sat Aug 5, 2023. Over the course of his life, Gottlob Frege formulated two logical systems in his attempts to define basic concepts of mathematics and to derive mathematical laws from the laws of logic.
Michael Dummett's Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics is a long-awaited and very welcome addition to the corpora of Frege scholarship and of the philosophy of mathematics, though it is true that, aside from the last
This collection of essays addresses three main developments in recent work on Frege’s philosophy of mathematics: the emerging interest in the intellectual background to his logicism; the rediscovery of Frege’s theorem; and the reevaluation of the mathematical content of The Basic Laws of Arithmetic.
