By common consent, the three founders of the modern analytic tradition of philosophy are, in chronological order, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The biggest project in my ...

The first credible attempt to realize Leibniz’s dream came in 1879, when the German philosopher Gottlob Frege published his landmark logic treatise Begriffsschrift.

Gottlob Frege was a German mathematician, philosopher, and logician. He’s considered to be “the father of analytical philosophy.” He was also writing during the late 19th and early 20th centuries up ...

Paul F. Linke, Gottlob Frege als Philosoph, Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, Bd. 1, H. 1 (1946), pp. 75-99 ...

Founded in 1888 by Edward C. Hegeler, The Monist is one of the world’s oldest and most important journals in philosophy. It helped to professionalize philosophy as an academic discipline in the United ...

One significant step was the German philosopher Gottlob Frege’s development of modern logic in the late 19th century. Frege introduced the use of quantifiable variables – rather than objects ...