Frege
OriginGermany
Era1848
SchoolAnalytic
About Frege
The father of analytic philosophy and modern logic. Invented quantifiers and the predicate calculus still used today. His life work was undermined by Russells paradox just as the second volume was at the printer. Bitter and largely unrecognized in his lifetime. His work was rediscovered by Wittgenstein and Russell.
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Wittgenstein
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was completed in the trenches of World War I. Whereof o...
Russell
Principia Mathematica attempted to ground all mathematics in logic. His paradox about sets...
G.E. Moore
Principia Ethica argued that good is simple and indefinable. Named the naturalistic fallac...
W.V.O. Quine
Two Dogmas of Empiricism demolished the analytic and synthetic distinction. To be is to be...