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Wittgenstein's Poker

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060936649
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Poker written by David Edmonds and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement. An engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection, Wittgenstein's Poker explores, through the Popper/Wittgenstein confrontation, the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. It evokes the tumult of fin-de-siécle Vienna, Wittgentein's and Popper's birthplace; the tragedy of the Nazi takeover of Austria; and postwar Cambridge University, with its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell. At the center of the story stand the two giants of philosophy themselves -- proud, irascible, larger than life -- and spoiling for a fight.

Beyond Wittgenstein's Poker

Author : Peter Munz
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Wittgenstein's Poker written by Peter Munz and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Munz argues that the later Wittgenstein and Popper ought to be seen as complementing one another. Popper believed that when truth is discovered meaning will take care of itself. However, since, in Popper's view, we can never verify a general proposition, we can never be certain of its truth. There must therefore be a way of understanding what it means even though we cannot be sure of its truth. The post-Tractatus Wittgenstein enables us to see how propositions are meaningful regardless of whether we can ascertain their truth and thus fills a gap in Popper's philosophy." "At the same time, Popper was able to make up a deficiency in Wittgenstein's later philosophy. While Wittgenstein had had it that meaningful propositions can be generated in any social order, Popper showed that if propositions are to be true as well as have meaning, the socio-political order in which they are put forward, has to be free and open.".

Would You Kill the Fat Man?

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165637
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Would You Kill the Fat Man? written by David Edmonds and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people feel it's wrong to kill the fat man.

The Murder of Professor Schlick

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691211965
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Murder of Professor Schlick written by David Edmonds and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelböck argued in court that his onetime teacher had promoted a treacherous Jewish philosophy. Weaving an enthralling narrative set against the backdrop of rising extremism in Hitler's Europe, David Edmonds traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle--associated with billiant thinkers like Otto Neurath, Kurt Gödel, Rudolf Carnap, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Karl Popper--and of a philosophical movement movement that sought to do away with metaphysics and pseudoscience in a city darkened by and unreason."--

Rousseau's Dog

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062037617
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau's Dog written by David Edmonds and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency. And so Rousseau came to England with his beloved dog, Sultan, and willingly took refuge with his more respected counterpart. But within months, the exile was loudly accusing his benefactor of plotting to dishonor him—which prompted a most uncharacteristically violent response from Hume. And so began a remarkable war of words and actions that ensnared many of the leading figures in British and French society, and became the talk of intellectual Europe. Rousseau's Dog is the fascinating true story of the bitter and very public quarrel that turned the Age of Enlightenment's two most influential thinkers into deadliest of foes—a most human tale of compassion, treachery, anger, and revenge; of celebrity and its price; of shameless spin; of destroyed reputations and shattered friendships.

Imaginary Philosophical Dialogues

Author : Kenneth Binmore
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030653870
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Philosophical Dialogues written by Kenneth Binmore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would Plato have responded if his student Aristotle had ever challenged his idea that our senses perceive nothing more than the shadows cast upon a wall by a true world of perfect ideals? What would Charles Darwin have said to Karl Marx about his claim that dialectical materialism is a scientific theory of evolution? How would Jean-Paul Sartre have reacted to Simone de Beauvoir’s claim that the Marquis de Sade was a philosopher worthy of serious attention? This light-hearted book proposes answers to such questions by imagining dialogues between thirty-three pairs of philosophical sages who were alive at the same time. Sometime famous sages get a much rougher handling than usual, as when Adam Smith beards Immanuel Kant in his Konigsberg den. Sometimes neglected or maligned sages get a chance to say what they really believed, as when Epicurus explains that he wasn’t epicurean. Sometimes the dialogues are about the origins of modern concepts, as when Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat discuss their invention of probability, or when John Nash and John von Neumann discuss the creation of game theory. Even in these scientific cases, the intention is that the protagonists come across as fallible human beings like the rest of us, rather than the intellectual paragons of philosophical textbooks.

Philosophy Bites Back

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199693005
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy Bites Back written by David Edmonds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents interviews with leading philosophers who discuss the ideas and works of the most important philosophers throughout history, including Socrates, Wittgenstein, and Derrida.

Metaphysical Animals

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

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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's Poker

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571320325
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Poker written by David Edmonds and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around the world that the two philosophers had come to blows, armed with red-hot pokers . . .

How To Read Wittgenstein

Author : Ray Monk
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783785713
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book How To Read Wittgenstein written by Ray Monk and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a peculiarly poetic style that separates his work sharply from that of his peers and makes the question of how to read him particularly pertinent. At the root of Wittgenstein's thought, Ray Monk argues, is a determination to resist the scientism characteristic of our age, a determination to insist on the integrity and the autonomy of non-scientific forms of understanding. The kind of understanding we seek in philosophy, Wittgenstein tried to make clear, is similar to the kind we might seek of a person, a piece of music, or, indeed, a poem. Extracts are taken from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and from a range of writings, including Philosophical Investigations, The Blue and Brown Books and Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology.

Philosophy Bites

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199694664
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy Bites written by David Edmonds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take 25 of the liveliest philosophers of our time. Talk to each about one of the most intriguing topics you can think of--from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics. The result is a Philosophy Bite - a lively, informal conversation that brings the subject into focus.First made public on the enormously popular Philosophy Bites podcast, these entertaining, personal, and illuminating conversations are presented in print. The result is a book that is a taster for the whole enterprise of philosophy, and gives unexpected insights into hot topics spanning ethics,politics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and the meaning of life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

Author : Joseph Agassi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030001162
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations written by Joseph Agassi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein's philosophy throughout the different stages of his career. The author writes from the viewpoint of critical rationalism. The tone of his analysis is friendly and appreciative yet critical. Of these papers, seven are on the background to the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Five papers examine different aspects of it: one on the philosophy of young Wittgenstein, one on his transitional period, and the final three on the philosophy of mature Wittgenstein, chiefly his Philosophical Investigations. The last of these papers, which serves as the concluding chapter, concerns the analytical school of philosophy that grew chiefly under its influence. Wittgenstein’s posthumous Philosophical Investigations ignores formal languages while retaining the view of metaphysics as meaningless -- declaring that all languages are metaphysics-free. It was very popular in the middle of the twentieth century. Now it is passé. Wittgenstein had hoped to dissolve all philosophical disputes, yet he generated a new kind of dispute. His claim to have improved the philosophy of life is awkward just because he prevented philosophical discussion from the ability to achieve that: he cut the branch on which he was sitting. This, according to the author, is the most serious critique of Wittgenstein.

Dante in Love

Author : Harriet Rubin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743262989
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Dante in Love written by Harriet Rubin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracks the great Italian poet following his exile from Florence in 1302, his travels as a fugitive from justice over the next twenty years, and the influence of his journeys on the creation of his poetic masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy."

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations

Author : Marie McGinn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134832478
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations written by Marie McGinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and lucidly written guide introduces the student of Wittgenstein to his most important work, the Philosophical Investigations and assesses its relationship to contemporary philosophy.

Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England

Author : Alan MacFarlane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134644663
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England written by Alan MacFarlane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological approach. The book provides an important case study on Essex as well as drawing comparisons with other regions of early modern England. The second edition of this classic work adds a new historiographical introduction, placing the book in context today.

Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn

Author : John G. Gunnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538340
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn written by John G. Gunnell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinctive feature of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work after 1930 was his turn to a conception of philosophy as a form of social inquiry, John G. Gunnell argues, and Thomas Kuhn's approach to the philosophy of science exemplified this conception. In this book, Gunnell shows how these philosophers address foundational issues in the social and human sciences, particularly the vision of social inquiry as an interpretive endeavor and the distinctive cognitive and practical relationship between social inquiry and its subject matter. Gunnell speaks directly to philosophers and practitioners of the social and human sciences. He tackles the demarcation between natural and social science; the nature of social phenomena; the concept and method of interpretation; the relationship between language and thought; the problem of knowledge of other minds; and the character of descriptive and normative judgments about practices that are the object of inquiry. Though Wittgenstein and Kuhn are often criticized as initiating a modern descent into relativism, this book shows that the true effect of their work was to undermine the basic assumptions of contemporary social and human science practice. It also problematized the authority of philosophy and other forms of social inquiry to specify the criteria for judging such matters as truth and justice. When Wittgenstein stated that "philosophy leaves everything as it is," he did not mean that philosophy would be left as it was or that philosophy would have no impact on what it studied, but rather that the activity of inquiry did not, simply by virtue of its performance, transform the object of inquiry.

Free Will

Author : Meghan Griffith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415562198
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Free Will written by Meghan Griffith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of whether humans are free to make their own decisions has long been debated and it continues to be a controversial topic today. In Free Will: The Basics readers are provided with a clear and accessible introduction to this central but challenging philosophical problem. The questions which are discussed include: Does free will exist? Or is it illusory? Can we be free even if everything is determined by a chain of causes? If our actions are not determined, does this mean they are just random or a matter of luck? In order to have the kind of freedom required for moral responsibility, must we have alternatives? What can recent developments in science tell us about the existence of free will? Because these questions are discussed without prejudicing one view over others and all technical terminology is clearly explained, this book is an ideal introduction to free will for the uninitiated.