Who influenced Gottlob Frege?

Who was Gottlob Frege?

Gottlob Frege taught mathematics at the University of Jena and is seen by many as the father of analytic philosophy. Largely ignored in his lifetime, he reached later philosophers through Giuseppe Peano, Bertrand Russell and, to a degree, Wittgenstein.

His Begriffsschrift laid the ground for modern logic, and The Foundations of Arithmetic is the founding text of logicism, the attempt to reduce mathematics to logic; Michael Dummett dates the linguistic turn to it. His essay "On Sense and Reference" distinguishes two kinds of meaning, and against psychologism and formalism he defended a Platonist view of numbers and thoughts.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Gottlob Frege?

2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
• Immanuel Kant 1724–1804

Who did Gottlob Frege influence?

5 thinkers on this map draw directly on Gottlob Frege.

• Edmund Husserl 1859–1938
• Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
• Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
• Rudolf Carnap 1891–1970
• Michael Dummett 1925–2011

The line of teachers behind Gottlob Frege

The longest documented line of influence ending at Gottlob Frege runs 20 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

1. Thales of Miletus
2. Anaximenes of Miletus
3. Anaxagoras
4. Socrates
5. Antisthenes
6. Diogenes of Sinope
7. Crates of Thebes
8. Zeno of Citium
9. Seneca
10. Tertullian
11. Augustine of Hippo
12. Anselm of Canterbury
13. Peter Lombard
14. Thomas Aquinas
15. René Descartes
16. Thomas Hobbes
17. Baruch Spinoza
18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
19. Christian Wolff
20. Immanuel Kant
21. Gottlob Frege

Two steps away from Gottlob Frege

Indirect influences

• Through Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: René Descartes, Anne Conway, Baruch Spinoza
• Through Immanuel Kant: Christian Wolff, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The second generation

• Through Edmund Husserl: Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Edith Stein, Roman Ingarden, Alfred Schutz, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida
• Through Ludwig Wittgenstein: Gilbert Ryle, J. L. Austin, G. E. M. Anscombe, Bernard Williams, Richard Rorty
• Through Bertrand Russell: W. V. O. Quine, P. F. Strawson
• Through Rudolf Carnap: A. J. Ayer, Saul Kripke

Contemporaries of Gottlob Frege

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Gottlob Frege, with no direct line between them.

• F. H. Bradley 1846–1924
• Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
• Vladimir Solovyov 1853–1900
• William James 1842–1910
• Peter Kropotkin 1842–1921
• Georgi Plekhanov 1856–1918
• Ferdinand de Saussure 1857–1913
• Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914

Gottlob Frege by the numbers

Direct influences

2

Direct followers

5 — #18 of 279 on this map

Thinkers upstream

82

Thinkers downstream

36

Wikipedia languages

76 — #21 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers

Card rarity

Epic

Schools and lineages

• Analytic philosophers: Gottlob Frege, G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf Carnap, A. J. Ayer, W. V. O. Quine, Gilbert Ryle, P. F. Strawson, Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke

Questions about Gottlob Frege

Who influenced Gottlob Frege?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Immanuel Kant.

Who did Gottlob Frege influence?

Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf Carnap and Michael Dummett.

When did Gottlob Frege live?

1848–1925. The map files Gottlob Frege under the 20th century.

How rare is the Gottlob Frege card?

Wikipedia carries an article on Gottlob Frege in 76 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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