Frege’s Logicism (Elucidations)
October 22, 2016 7:16 pm
Patricia Blanchette discusses Logicism and the work of Gottlob Frege. Logicism is a school of thought in the philosophy of mathematics which tries to reduce mathematics to logic. Gottlob Frege was a 18th-19th century German philosopher and mathematician who made important contributions to the fields of logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. This is an episode of Elucidations, a philosophy podcast from the University of Chicago.