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The Philosophical Investigations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) present his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning.
Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9780631231592
The Philosophical Investigations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) present his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning.
Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
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There could be no better introduction to Wittgenstein's thought than the Blue Book, whose simplicity and forthrightness must make an instant appeal. The progressive complications of the Brown Book make a natural bridge to the still more subtle, but often confusing, exposition of the Investigations.
Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Page : 185 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : Marie McGinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134832478
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.
Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1444307975
Philosophical Investigations New editions of the Commentary on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations from Wiley-Blackwell Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part I: Essays G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker Second, extensively revised edition by P. M. S. Hacker Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part II: Exegesis §§1–184 G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker Second, extensively revised edition by P. M. S. Hacker Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity, Volume 2 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Essays and Exegesis of §§185–242 G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker Second, extensively revised edition by P. M. S. Hacker Immediately upon its posthumous publication in 1953, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations was hailed as a masterpiece, and the ensuing years have confirmed this initial assessment. Today it is widely acknowledged to be the single most important philosophical work of the twentieth century. In this definitive new en face German-English edition, Wittgenstein experts Peter Hacker and Joachim Schulte have incorporated significant editorial changes to earlier editions of Philosophical Investigations in order to reflect more closely Wittgenstein’s original intentions. Notable revisions include the placement of Wittgenstein’s notes – Randbemerkungen – into their designated positions in the text, some corrections to the originally published German text, and the numbering of all the remarks in what was called Part 2 and is now named Philosophy of Psychology – A Fragment. Extensive modifications and corrections have also been made to G. E. M. Anscombe’s original English translation. Detailed editorial endnotes have been added to illuminate difficult translation decisions and to identify references and allusions in Wittgenstein’s original text.
Author : Kevin M. Cahill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1315301571
Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality. He also developed innovative views about the status and methodology of philosophy and was explicitly opposed to crudely "scientistic" worldviews. His later thought has thus often been understood as elaborating a nuanced form of naturalism appealing to such notions as "form of life", "primitive reactions", "natural history", "general facts of nature" and "common behaviour of mankind". And yet, Wittgenstein is strangely absent from much of the contemporary literature on naturalism and naturalising projects. This is the first collection of essays to focus explicitly on the relationship between Wittgenstein and naturalism. The volume is divided into four sections, each of which addresses a different aspect of naturalism and its relation to Wittgenstein's thought. The first section considers how naturalism could or should be understood. The second section deals with some of the main problematic domains—consciousness, meaning, mathematics—that philosophers have typically sought to naturalise. The third section explores ways in which the conceptual nature of human life might be continuous in important respects with animals. The final section is concerned with the naturalistic status and methodology of philosophy itself. This book thus casts a fresh light on many classical philosophical issues and brings Wittgensteinian ideas to bear on a number of current debates-for example experimental philosophy, neo-pragmatism and animal cognition/ethics-in which naturalism is playing a central role.
Author : David G. Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521891325
In this new introduction to a classic philosophical text, David Stern examines Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. He gives particular attention to both the arguments of the Investigations and the way in which the work is written, especially the role of dialogue in the book. While he concentrates on helping the reader to arrive at his or h er own interpretation of the primary text, he also provides guidance to the unusually wide range of existing interpretations, and to the reasons why the Investigations have inspired such a diversity of readings.
Author : William H. Brenner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 1999-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791497437
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 : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 1991-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780631146605
These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-1934: the 'Brown Book' was a draft for what eventually became the growth of the first part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination and growth of the ideas which found their final expression in Witgenstein's later work. It is indispensable therefore to students of Witgenstein's thought and to all those who wish to study at first-hand the mental processes of a thinker who fundamentally changed the course of modern philosophy.
Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :
Major Works is the finest single-volume anthology of influential philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's important writings. Featuring the complete texts of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Blue and Brown Books: Studies for 'Philosophical Investigations,' and On Certainty, this new collection selects from the early, middle, and later career of this revolutionary thinker, widely recognized as one of the most profound minds of all time.