The Wittgenstein Reader

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405135832

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The Wittgenstein Reader by Anthony Kenny Pdf

This popular selection of Wittgenstein’s key writings has now been updated to include new material relevant to recent debates about the philosopher. Follows the evolution of Wittgenstein’s philosophical thought from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus through to the Philosophical Investigations. Excerpts are arranged by topic and introduce readers to all the central concerns of Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Now includes a new chapter on ‘Sense, Nonsense and Philosophy’ incorporating material relevant to recent debates about Wittgenstein.

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OCLC:1302540007

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The Wittgenstein Reader by Anthony Kenny Pdf

Author : John J. Ross
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739136755

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Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations by John J. Ross Pdf

Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is designed as a traditional philosophical commentary that follows the Investigations step by step. It will help undergraduates read and understand Wittgenstein's text by elaborating and explaining key themes and relevant passages in simple everyday language and by providing the biographical and philosophical background necessary for understanding the issues with which Wittgenstein is dealing.

Author : Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631194371

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Wittgenstein by Hans-Johann Glock Pdf

This volume provides a wide-ranging collection of newly-commissioned essays on Wittgenstein by internationally established philosophers.

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405154499

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Wittgenstein by Anthony Kenny Pdf

This revised edition of Sir Anthony Kenny’s classic work onWittgenstein contains a new introduction which covers developmentsin Wittgenstein scholarship since the book was first published. Widely praised for providing a lucid and historically informedaccount of Wittgenstein’s core philosophical concerns. Demonstrates the continuity between Wittgenstein’s earlyand later writings. Provides a persuasive argument for the unity ofWittgenstein’s thought. Kenny also assesses Wittgenstein’s influence in thelatter part of the twentieth century.

Author : Sascha Bru,Wolfgang Huemer,Daniel Steuer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110294699

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Wittgenstein Reading by Sascha Bru,Wolfgang Huemer,Daniel Steuer Pdf

Wittgenstein's thought is reflected in his reading and reception of other authors. Wittgenstein Reading approaches the moment of literature as a vehicle of self-reflection for Wittgenstein. What sounds, on the surface, like criticism (e.g. of Shakespeare) can equally be understood as a simple registration of Wittgenstein's own reaction, hence a piece of self-diagnosis or self-analysis. The book brings a representative sample of authors, from Shakespeare, Goethe, or Dostoyevsky to some that have received far less attention in Wittgenstein scholarship like Kleist, Lessing,or Wilhelm Busch and Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Furthermore, the volume offersmeans for the cultural contextualization of Wittgenstein's thoughts. Unique to this book is its internal design. The editors' introduction sets the scene with regards to both biography and theory, while each of the subsequent chapters takes a quotation from Wittgenstein on a particular author as its point of departure for developing a more specific theme relating to the writer in question. This format serves to avoid the well-trodden paths of discussions on the relationship between philosophy and literature, allowing for unconventional observations to be made. Furthermore, the volume offersmeans for the cultural contextualization of Wittgenstein's thoughts.

Author : Ray Monk
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783785711

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How To Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk Pdf

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.

Author : Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631194363

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Wittgenstein by Hans-Johann Glock Pdf

This volume provides a wide-ranging collection of newly-commissioned essays on Wittgenstein by internationally established philosophers.

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191540387

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Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling Pdf

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Cora Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674989849

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Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics by Cora Diamond Pdf

Cora Diamond follows two major philosophers as they think about thinking, and about our ability to respond to thinking that has gone astray. Acting as both witness to and participant in the encounter, she provides fresh perspective on the value of Wittgenstein’s and Anscombe’s work, and demonstrates what genuinely independent thought can achieve.

Author : Eli FRIEDLANDER,Eli Friedlander
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674037328

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Signs of Sense by Eli FRIEDLANDER,Eli Friedlander Pdf

This work seeks to shed light on one of the most enigmatic masterpieces of twentieth-century thought. At the heart of Eli Friedlander's interpretation is the internal relation between the logical and the ethical in the Tractatus, a relation that emerges in the work of drawing the limits of language. Bearing on the question of the divide between analytic and Continental philosophy, this interpretation views Wittgenstein's work as a possible mediation between these two central philosophical traditions of the modern age.

Author : T. Binkley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401024501

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Wittgenstein’s Language by T. Binkley Pdf

One of the first things to strike the reader of Wittgenstein's writings is the unique power of his style. One immediately notices the intriguing and arrangement of the paragraphs in Philosophical Investi composition gations, or the stark assertiveness of the sentences in the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus. A sense of the singular style being employed is unavoidable, even before the reader understands anything of what is happening philos ophically. Perhaps precisely for this reason it is too often assumed that coming to understand either work has little or nothing to do with re sponding to its form. The unusual style is a mere curiousity decorating the vehicle of Wittgenstein's ideas. Form is assigned a purely incidental import, there is a coincidence of this or that rhetorical flair with the yet to be determined content of the thoughts. The remarkableness of the style is perhaps registered in a tidy obiter dictum standing beside the more arduous task of discovering the substance of the ideas being presented. our interest, or at Wittgenstein's peculiar way of writing ably captures least our attention, but it bears only minor philosophical import. Though not unprecedented as a form of philosophical composition, it does not conform to the currently acceptable conventions; hence Wittgenstein's style is often thought to stand in the way of understanding his meaning. Such assumptions can be harmless for certain types of writing; however it does not appear as though Wittgenstein's is one of these.

Author : Arif Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139489577

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Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations by Arif Ahmed Pdf

Published in 1953, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had a deeply unsettling effect upon our most basic philosophical ideas concerning thought, sensation and language. Its claim that philosophical questions of meaning necessitate a close analysis of the way we use language continues to influence Anglo-American philosophy today. However, its compressed and dialogic prose is not always easy to follow. This collection of essays deepens but also challenges our understanding of the work's major themes, such as the connection between meaning and use, the nature of concepts, thought and intentionality, and language games. Bringing together leading philosophers and Wittgenstein scholars, it offers a genuinely critical approach and demonstrating Wittgenstein's relevance for contemporary philosophy. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the later Wittgenstein, in addition to those interested in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology.

Author : Alfred Nordmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 052185086X

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Wittgenstein's Tractatus by Alfred Nordmann Pdf

This introduction, first published in 2005, considers the philosophical and literary aspects of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' and shows how they are related.

Author : Michael A. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000028003

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Wittgenstein, Anti-foundationalism, Technoscience and Philosophy of Education by Michael A. Peters Pdf

This book is a collection of essays motivated by a "cultural" and biographical reading of Wittgenstein. It includes some new essays and some that were originally published in Educational Philosophy and Theory. The book focuses on the concept of “technoscience”, and the relevance of Wittgenstein’s work for philosophy of technology which amplifies Lyotard’s reading and provides a critique of education as an increasingly technology-led enterprise. It includes a distinctive view on the ethics of reading Wittgenstein and the ethics of suicide that shaped him. It also examines the reception and engagement with Wittgenstein’s work in French philosophy with a chapter on post-analytic philosophy of education as a choice between Richard Rorty and Jean-François Lyotard. Peters examines Wittgenstein’s academic life at Cambridge University and his involvement as a student and faculty member in the Moral Sciences Club. Finally, the book provides an understanding of Wittgensteinian styles of reasoning and the concept of worldview. Is it possible to escape the picture that holds us captive? This constitutes a challenging introduction to Wittgenstein’s work for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, technology and philosophy.