Wittgenstein's Heirs and Editors

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108865046
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein's Heirs and Editors by : Christian Erbacher

Download or read book Wittgenstein's Heirs and Editors written by Christian Erbacher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century. But the books in which his philosophy was published – with the exception of his early work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – were posthumously edited from the writings he left to posterity. How did his 20,000 pages of philosophical writing become published volumes? Using extensive archival material, this Element reconstructs and examines the way in which Wittgenstein's writings were edited over more than fifty years, and shows how the published volumes tell a thrilling story of philosophical inheritance. The discussion ranges over the conflicts between the editors, their deviations from Wittgenstein's manuscripts, other scholarly issues which arose, and also the shared philosophical tradition of the editors, which animated their desire to be faithful to Wittgenstein and to make his writings both available and accessible. The Element can thus be read as a companion to all of Wittgenstein's published works of philosophy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030360873
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy by : Arthur Gibson

Download or read book Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy written by Arthur Gibson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-13 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy. The book includes key explanations of the origin and background of these previously unknown manuscripts. It investigates how Wittgenstein’s philosophical thought-processes are revealed in his dictation to, as well as his editing and revision with Francis Skinner, in the latter’s role of amanuensis. The book displays a considerable wealth and variety of Wittgenstein’s fundamental experiments in philosophy across a wide array of subjects that include the mind, pure and applied mathematics, metaphysics, the identities of ordinary and creative language, as well as intractable problems in logic and life. He also periodically engages with the work of Newton, Fermat, Russell and others. The book shows Wittgenstein strongly battling against the limits of understanding and the bewitchment of institutional and linguistic customs. The reader is drawn in by Wittgenstein as he urges us to join him in his struggles to equip us with skills, so that we can embark on devising new pathways beyond confusion. This collection of manuscripts was posted off by Wittgenstein to be considered for publication during World War 2, in October 1941. None of it was published and it remained hidden for over two generations. Upon its rediscovery, Professor Gibson was invited to research, prepare and edit the Archive to appear as this book, encouraged by Trinity College Cambridge and The Mathematical Association. Niamh O’Mahony joined him in co-editing and bringing this book to publication.

Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein

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Publisher : Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
ISBN 13 : 1009462792
Total Pages : 85 pages
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Book Synopsis Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein by : Alois Pichler

Download or read book Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein written by Alois Pichler and published by Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element explains why for Wittgenstein philosophy meets with poetry.

The Creation of Wittgenstein

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135012110X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis The Creation of Wittgenstein by : Thomas H. Wallgren

Download or read book The Creation of Wittgenstein written by Thomas H. Wallgren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making extensive use of unique archival resources this collection presents, for the first time, an in-depth study of the work and influence of Wittgenstein's original literary heirs, Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright as editors of Wittgenstein's posthumous writings. Presenting philosophical portraits of Rhees, Anscombe and von Wright, a team of international contributors provide a history of their collaboration and discuss how the individual philosophical views of the literary heirs shaped what we now know as the works of Wittgenstein. They consider the link between philosophically relevant aspects of their biography, their friendship with Wittgenstein and the development of their philosophical personalities, offering us a new appreciation of the dynamics of their editorial collaboration and how each of the heirs worked individually as an editor to create Wittgenstein's philosophy. Each chapter reveals what the editors did to enrich and shape our understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophical contribution on topics such as rule-following, logical necessity, aesthetics and the methods and aims of philosophy. This thorough critical analysis of the editorial history of Wittgenstein's works allows us to finally appreciate the profound impact the editors have had on our understanding of his philosophy, his views and his cultural significance.

Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110698498
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy by : Alexander Berg

Download or read book Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy written by Alexander Berg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors in this volume situate Wittgenstein’s philosophy within the context of Kant, Hegel, Fichte, and Schelling. They show how his philosophy both stands in the tradition of German idealism while breaking new ground. The topics of logic and language make this tension especially palpable and allow the authors to reveal new connections and offer critical perspectives.

The Happy Afterlife of Ludwig W.

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662661551
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (626 download)

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Book Synopsis The Happy Afterlife of Ludwig W. by : Christian Erbacher

Download or read book The Happy Afterlife of Ludwig W. written by Christian Erbacher and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells a great philosophical tale. The backstory of this tale is simple: the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein published only one philosophical book during his lifetime: the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He left the lion’s share of his philosophical writings to posterity in the form of unpublished manuscripts and typescripts amounting to more than 18,000 pages. In his will, Wittgenstein entrusted three of his former students – Elizabeth Anscombe, Rush Rhees and Georg Henrik von Wright – with the task of publishing from his writings what they thought fit. During the subsequent decades, these literary heirs edited the volumes that the learned world has come to know as the influential works of Wittgenstein. Now, the essays in this book tell about Wittgenstein’s literary heirs in their ambition to publish the writings of their beloved teacher. This history of the posthumous publication processes for Wittgenstein’s writings will extinguish the genius cult that still exists in some historiographies of philosophy. This cult is partly responsible for the impression that great philosophical works fall from the window of an ivory tower, in completed form, printed and bound, just in order to hit and inspire the next genius philosopher walking by. In actual fact, in the history of philosophy, there are a number of cases in which it takes the great philosophers’ pupils and followers to bring their teachers’ thought into a publishable form. Indeed, this is how literary tradition of Western philosophy begins. In the case of Wittgenstein’s writings, this book opens, at least to some extent, the black box of the discipulary production processes of the making of a classic philosopher.

Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303107789X
Total Pages : 615 pages
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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle by : Friedrich Stadler

Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle written by Friedrich Stadler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical update of current Wittgenstein research on the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP) and its relation to the Vienna Circle. The contributions are written by renowned Wittgenstein scholars, on the occasion of the "Wittgenstein Years" 1921/1922 with a special focus on its origin, reception, and interpretation then and now. The main topic is the mutual relation between Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle (esp. Schlick, Waismann, Carnap, Gödel), but also Russell and Ramsey. In addition, included in this volume are new studies on Wittgenstein's life and work, on the philosophy of the TLP, and on the Wittgenstein family in philosophical and historical context. Furthermore, unpublished documents on Wittgenstein and Waismann from the archives are provided in form of edited and commented primary sources. As per the book series' usual format, a general part of this Yearbook covers a study on Neurath's economy as well as reviews of related publications.

Wittgenstein on Criteria and Practices

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108944329
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein on Criteria and Practices by : Lars Hertzberg

Download or read book Wittgenstein on Criteria and Practices written by Lars Hertzberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the interpretive literature from the 1950's through the 1970's the term 'criterion' was thought to be a central key to the understanding of Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Later on, it was relegated from this place of honour to being one of a variety of expressions used by Wittgenstein in dealing with philosophical questions. This Element tries to account for the shifting fate of this concept. It discusses the various occurrences of the word “criteria” in the Philosophical Investigations, argues that the post-Wittgensteinian debate about criteria was put on the wrong track by a problematic passage in Wittgenstein's early Blue Book, and finally gives an overview of the main contributions to this debate, trying to achieve a reconciliation between the rival conceptions.

Wittgenstein on Forms of Life

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108944310
Total Pages : 145 pages
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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein on Forms of Life by : Anna Boncompagni

Download or read book Wittgenstein on Forms of Life written by Anna Boncompagni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of what Wittgenstein meant by 'forms of life' has attracted a great deal of attention in the literature, yet it is an expression that Wittgenstein himself employs on only a relatively small number of occasions, and that he does not explicitly define. This Element gives a description of this concept that also explains Wittgenstein's reluctance to say much about it. A short historical introduction examines the origins and uses of the term in Wittgenstein's time. The Element then presents a survey of Wittgenstein's employment of it, and an overview of the literature. Finally, the Element offers a methodological reading of this notion, interpreting it as a conceptual tool in Wittgenstein's wider inquiries into the workings of our language.

Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110892221X
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism by : David R. Cerbone

Download or read book Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism written by David R. Cerbone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element concerns Wittgenstein's evolving attitude toward the opposition between realism and idealism in philosophy. Despite the marked – and sometimes radical – changes Wittgenstein's thinking undergoes from the early to the middle to the later period, there is an underlying continuity in terms of his unwillingness at any point to endorse either position in a straightforward manner. Instead, Wittgenstein can be understood as rejecting both positions, while nonetheless seeing insights in each position worth retaining. The author traces these “neither-nor” and “both-and” strands of Wittgenstein's attitude toward realism and idealism to his – again, evolving – insistence on seeing language and thought as worldly phenomena. That thought and language are about the world and happen amidst the world they are about undermines the attempt to formulate any kind of general thesis concerning their interrelation.

Wittgenstein on Sense and Grammar

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108968384
Total Pages : 143 pages
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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein on Sense and Grammar by : Silver Bronzo

Download or read book Wittgenstein on Sense and Grammar written by Silver Bronzo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinction between sense and nonsense is central to Wittgenstein's philosophy. It is at the basis of his conception of philosophy as a struggle against illusions of sense generated by misunderstandings of the logic of our language. Moreover, it informs the notions of “grammar” (in the later work) and “logical syntax” (in the early work), whose investigation serves to clear up those misunderstandings. This Element contrasts two exegetical approaches: one grounding charges of nonsensicality in a theory of sense specifying criteria that are external to the linguistic performance under indictment; and one rejecting any such theory. The former pursues the idea of a nonsensicality test; the latter holds that illusions of sense can only be overcome from within, through the very capacity of which they constitute defective exercises. The Element connects the two approaches to opposite understandings of Wittgenstein's conception of language, and defends a version of the second approach.

Wittgenstein on Logic and Philosophical Method

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108988350
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein on Logic and Philosophical Method by : Oskari Kuusela

Download or read book Wittgenstein on Logic and Philosophical Method written by Oskari Kuusela and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element outlines Wittgenstein's early and later philosophies of logic, and explains Wittgenstein's views regarding the methodological significance of logic for philosophy. Wittgenstein's early philosophy of logic is presented as a further development of Frege's and Russell's accounts of logic, and Wittgenstein later philosophy as a response to problems with his early views, including confusions about idealization and abstraction in logic. The later Wittgenstein's novel logical methods, such as the method of language-games, are outlined, and the new kind of logical naturalism developed in his later philosophy described. I conclude by discussing the later Wittgenstein on names.

Metaphysical Animals

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1984898981
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Book Synopsis Metaphysical Animals by : Clare Mac Cumhaill

Download or read book Metaphysical Animals written by Clare Mac Cumhaill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations. Neither the great Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense of this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to bring philosophy back to life. We are metaphysical animals, they realized, creatures that can question their very being. Who am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness? The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will become. Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today.

Wittgenstein on Aspect Perception

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108864996
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein on Aspect Perception written by Avner Baz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perception of what he calls 'aspects' preoccupied Wittgenstein and gave him considerable trouble in his final years. The Wittgensteinian aspect defies any number of traditional philosophical dichotomies: the aspect is neither subjective (inner, metaphysically private) nor objective; it presents perceivable unity and sense that are (arguably) not (yet) conceptual; it is 'subject to the will', but at the same time is normally taken to be genuinely revelatory of the object perceived under it. This Element begins with a grammatical and phenomenological characterization of Wittgensteinian 'aspects'. It then challenges two widespread ideas: that aspects are to be identified with concepts; and that aspect perception has a continuous version that is characteristic of (normal) human perception. It concludes by proposing that aspect perception brings to light the distinction between the world as perceived and the world as objectively construed, and the role we play in the constitution of the former.

The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

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Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1788360133
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by : John Haldane

Download or read book The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe written by John Haldane and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the St Andrews series contains a collection of essays from leading authors regarding the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, in particular issues in mind and metaphysics, and can be considered a partner work to 2016's The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (also published by Imprint Academic Ltd.).

The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190887354
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe by : Roger Teichmann

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe written by Roger Teichmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important and original philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as being a friend, pupil a student, and the main translator of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She wrote on a wide range of philosophical topics, publishing a handful of books and a large corpus of articles in her lifetime. This collection of twenty-two essays on the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by an international array of experts in the field covers intention, ethical theory, human life, the first person, and Anscombe on other philosophers. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Anscombe's work and in the philosophical problems which she wrote about"--

Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504469
Total Pages : 263 pages
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Download or read book Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty written by D. Moyal-Sharrock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty , clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal of scepticism. As an introduction and commentary on Wittgenstein's final major philosophical work, Moyal-Sharrock's book will prove an indispensable guide to the student, scholar and general reader.