[PDF] The Wittgenstein Reader eBook

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2005-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405135832

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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 : Sir Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2005-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405135840

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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 : Ray Monk
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1783785713

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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 : Eli FRIEDLANDER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674037324

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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 : Cora Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674989848

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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 : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191540382

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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 : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405154497

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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 : William H. Brenner
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791442012

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An imaginative and exciting exposition of themes from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, this book helps readers find their way around the "forest of remarks" that make up this classic. Chapters on language, mind, color, number, God, value, and philosophy develop a major theme: that there are various kinds of language use - a variety philosophy needs to look at but tends to overlook.

Author : Hans Sluga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110712025X

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Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.