Gottlob Frege: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Works
The principal English translations of Frege’s works are: J.L. Austin (trans.), The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number, 2nd ed. rev. (1959), a two-language version; Peter Geach and Max Black (eds.), Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, 2nd ed. (1960); Montgomery Furth (ed. and trans.), The Basic Laws of Arithmetic (1964); J. van Heijenoort (ed. and trans.), “Begriffschrift,” in From Frege to Gödel (1967); and A. and M. Quinton (trans.), “The Thought,” in Peter F. Strawson (ed.), Philosophical Logic (1967).
Critical sources
E.D. Klemke (ed.), Essays on Frege (1968), contains recent work on Frege. See also Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logicophilosophicus (1922; Eng. trans. 1961) and Philosophische Untersuchungen (written 1936–49; Philosophical Investigations, 1953); Bertrand Russell, “On Denoting,” Mind, 14:479–493 (1905, reprinted in Logic and Knowledge, ed. by R.C. Marsh, 1956); and Michael Dummett, “Frege, Gottlob,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 3 (1967) and The Interpretation of Frege’s Philosophy (1980).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| Death date of Gottlob Frege's wife changed. | Feb 18, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 04, 2025 | ||
| Article revised; Top Questions added. | Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 04, 2024 | ||
| Invalidated site: Famous Mathematicians - Biography of Gottlob Frege. | Apr 30, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Mathematicians - Biography of Gottlob Frege. | Apr 17, 2019 | ||
| Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege. | Nov 29, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Frege's Logic, Theorem, and Foundations for Arithmetic. | Oct 30, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Gottlob Frege. | Oct 27, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | May 11, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |