The State of the Economy: Neo-Logicism and Inflation

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in logicism as a viable philosophy of mathematics, stemming in great part from Crispin Wright’s Frege’s Conception of Numbers as Objects [1984] and the formal and philosophical work of George Boolos. Before this work it was generally accepted that Frege’s project of reducing mathematics to pure logic was devastated by Russell’s detection of a paradox produced by Frege’s notorious Basic Law V. Frege’s project has recently been reborn, with some modifications.