List of books and articles about gottlob frege online. Frege gottlob frege was a german logician, mathematician and philosopher who. Gottlob freges most popular book is the foundations of arithmetic. Nusenoff 1978 notre dame journal of formal logic 19 2. The article involves a clarification of his earlier distinction between concepts and objects. Equality 1 gives rise to challenging questions which are not altogether easy to answer. Gottlob frege or his contributions to the development of symbolic logic and the foundations of arithmetic. On the contrary, by combining two wellknown sets of. The first section below considers why a philosophical investigation of language mattered at all for frege, the mathematician, and why it should have mattered to him. Frege, sense and reference, indirect senses, immediately revelatory senses, tensed and first person. In our example, accordingly, the reference of the expressions the point of intersection of a and b and the point of intersection of b and c would be the same, but not their senses. The editor is himself an accomplished philosopher with several publications on the origins of.
A formal language for pure thought modeled on that of arithmetic in german, halle as. Among the formal graphical methods are freges 1879 begriffsschrift, peirces 1909 existential graphs, and sowas 1984 conceptual graphs. Comparing frege and russell san francisco state university. He worked as a mathematics professor at the university of jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic philosophy, concentrating on the philosophy of. Summary of definitions, axioms and inference rules. When we buy something, hand over cash and receive change, the statement. Though his education and early work were mathematical, especially geometrical, frege s thought soon turned to logic. Frege spent most of his career teaching at the university of jena, the same. Blackwell 1977 abstract this article has no associated abstract.
His great goal was to reduce mathematics, or at least arithmetic, to a form of logic, in order to provide mathematics with a proper foundation. Sources were checked, errors were eliminated, and page numbers were added whenever possible. A relation between objects, or between names or signs of objects. Gottlob frege, born november 8, 1848, wismar, mecklenburgschwerindied july 26, 1925, bad kleinen, germany, german mathematician and logician, who founded modern mathematical logic.
Gottlob frege was a german logician, mathematician, and language philosopher. On sense and reference gottlob frege as reprinted in a. Ina year before his death, frege finally returned to the attempt to understand the foundations of arithmetic. His work was almost wholly ignored during his lifetime but now exerts a great influence on the philosophy of logic and language. Gottlob frege has 53 books on goodreads with 4291 ratings. Frege spent most of his career teaching at the university of jena, the same institution where he pursued his initial studies, after. Basic laws of arithmetic, originally published in german in two volumes 1893, 1903, is freges magnum opus. Frege, august bebel and the return of alsacelorraine. Written by professor dr gottlob frege in the time from 10 march to 9 april 1924, inquiry 39 1996, 303342. He is generally considered to be the father of analytic philosophy, for his writings on the.
Freges theory of sense and reference that marcus family home. Gottlob frege 18481925 alistair macfarlane laments the profound disappointment of a master of logic. He worked as a mathematics professor at the university of jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic philosophy, concentrating on the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics. He attended the gymnasium in wismar, and from 1869 to 1871 he was a student at jena. These three are based in firstorder predicate logic. Basic laws of arithmetic, originally published in german in two volumes 1893, 1903, is frege s magnum opus. Inspirat da li plu frui labore da leibniz, lo probad tu montra ke on pove deriva omni matematikal veritates fro poki simpli axiomes. The german philosopher and mathematician gottlob frege 18481925 was the father of analytic philosophy and to all intents and purposes the inventor of modern logic. Please notify the author if you find any remaining errors. The editor is himself an accomplished philosopher with several publications on the origins of analytic philosophy and the work of frege. Gedanke, a countable, not a mass, articulates thought. Frege was born 1848 in wismar, mecklenburgschwerin. He is considert tae be ane o the foonders o modren logic an made major contreibutions tae the foondations o mathematics.
Frege and hilbert on the foundations of geometry susan g. Please read our short guide how to send a book to kindle. Gottlob frege routledge companion to nineteenth century. He was professor of mathematics 18791918 at the univ.
Frege s logical ideas nevertheless spread through the writings of his student rudolf carnap and other admirers, particularly bertrand russell and ludwig wittgenstein oxford tedanke press is a department of the university of oxford. Gottlob frege german mathematician and philosopher. Working on the borderline between philosophy and mathematicsviz. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern logic and made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics. Gottlob frege german mathematician and philosopher britannica.
Freges theory of reference university of notre dame. The german mathematician and philosopher gottlob frege 18481925 is considered the founder of modern mathematical logic. Bad kleinen, germany, 26 july 1925 logic, foundations of mathematics gottlob frege was a son of alexander frege, principal of a girls high school, and of auguste bialloblotzky. Frege was an extreme critic of psychologism in logic, mathematics, and philosophy of languagethat is, of any view that attempts to treat logic or other sciences pursuing necessary truth as sciences whose subject matter is the actual functioning of the human mind as it can be empirically observed. He claimed that all mathematics could be derived from purely logical principles and definitions. Nothing in our intellectual life seems more secure than arithmetic and logic. It falls on the logical side of freges psychologicallogical distinction. Gottlob frege, nachgelassene schriften hans hermes, friedrich kambartel. Gedanken dieser gruppe moge durch einen logischen schlu. The dating of the distinction between sinn and bedeutung. Gottlob frege 18481925 is most celebrated today for his contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. This bibliography was compiled and crosschecked with the help of bynum 1972, beaney 1997, hermes 1969, and angelelli 1967. For ease of reference, the original pagination is indicated in double square brackets. Gottlob frege was a german mathematician, logician, and philosopher whose ideas revolutionized modern logic and paved the way for the reconsideration of the foundations of mathematics that occupied european thinkers in the first decades of the twentieth century.
In general, a concept is a function whose value is always a truth value 9. Books by gottlob frege author of the foundations of. My lecture at logica 99 dealt with the dating of freges distinction between sinn and be deutung, and. Frege was one of the founders of modern symbolic logic, and his work profoundly influenced bertrand russell. Begriffsschrift a formula language, modeled upon that of arithmetic, for pure thought. References to gottlob freges works are cited in the text with the abbreviations. Books by gottlob frege author of the foundations of arithmetic. Freges functionargument analysis frege rejected the aristotelian subjectpredicate analysis of sentences, and thought that it went wrong by following the super. This amount of change is correct must be true or false. He wrote philosophical works about logic, mathematics, and language.
The volume contains both the german and the english. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Thus, frege sought to create a language that would combine the tasks of what. For russell, the reason is the semantic inertness of denotation. As he said, a distinction of subject and predicate. Frege, gottlob internet encyclopedia of philosophy. Carl was the cofounder and headmaster of a girls high school until his death.
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