Frege and Logicism
November 7, 2026
Today’s Digital Culture reading was on Frege. After the historical process shaped by thinkers like Hobbes and Leibniz, and by the effects of capitalism, I thought reading Frege would provide a good foundation before moving on to Wittgenstein. Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. He spent most of his academic life at the University of Jena. Regarded as one of the founders of modern logic and analytic philosophy, Frege argued that the foundations of mathematics should be…