Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
Author: Michael Rowland Morris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2008
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415357227

This text presents an introduction to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Morris introduces & analyses the brief & sometimes cryptic text, including Wittgestein's life, the background to the Tractatus, & the importance of Wittgenstein's work in philosophy today.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus
Author: Michael Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2008-10-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134248407

Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein’s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He introduces and analyzes: Wittgenstein’s life and the background to the Tractatus the ideas and text of the Tractatus the continuing importance of Wittgenstein's work to philosophy today, Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-century philosopher in the English speaking world. This book will be essential reading for all students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Author: Alfred Nordmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2005-08-25
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521850865

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

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Author: David G. Stern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004-10-21
Genre: 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.

Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'

Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'
Author: Roger M. White
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2006-10-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441188916

Wittgenstein's Tractatus - the only book he actually published within his lifetime - was an immensely important work which changed the direction of philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. Highlighting the importance of the nature of language in philosophy and the problematic nature of metaphysics, it strongly influenced the work of Russell, the Vienna Circle and A. J. Ayer. An understanding of the ideas in the Tractatus is essential to fully grasp Wittgenstein's remarkable thought. In Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus': A Reader's Guide, Roger White provides a thorough account of the philosophical and historical context of Wittgenstein's work. The book provides a detailed outline of the themes and structure of the text, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of this remarkable text. White goes on to explore the reception and influence of the work and offers a detailed guide to further reading. This is the ideal companion to study of this hugely important philosophical work.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty
Author: Andy Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317676378

Ludwig Wittgenstein is arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. In On Certainty he discusses central issues in epistemology, including the nature of knowledge and scepticism. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty introduces and assesses: Wittgenstein's career and the background to his later philosophy the central ideas and text of On Certainty, including its responses to G.E. Moore and discussion of fundamental issues in the theory of knowledge Wittgenstein's continuing importance in contemporary philosophy. This GuideBook is essential reading for all students of Wittgenstein, and for those studying epistemology and philosophy of language. On Certainty, Wittgenstein's final work, addresses a category of "world-picture" propositions discovered by G.E. Moore. These challenge Wittgenstein's enduring commitment to a well-defined category of empirical propositions, and help to generate a critique of scepticism. Developing Wittgenstein's view that scepticism is self-undermining, the Guidebook offers a combative yet therapeutic interpretation that locates On Certainty between the standpoints of Kant and Hume.

Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein
Author: Severin Schroeder
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2006-03-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0745626165

This book offers a lucid and highly readable account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, framed against the background of his extraordinary life and character. Woven together with a biographical narrative, the chapters explain the key ideas of Wittgenstein's work, from his first book, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to his mature masterpiece, the Philosophical Investigations. Severin Schroeder shows that at the core of Wittgenstein's later work lies a startlingly original and subversive conception of the nature of philosophy. In accordance with this conception, Wittgenstein offers no new philosophical doctrines to replace his earlier ones, but seeks to demonstrate how all philosophical theorizing is the result of conceptual misunderstanding. He first diagnoses such misunderstanding at the core of his own earlier philosophy of language and then subjects philosophical views and problems about various mental phenomena understanding, sensations, the will to a similar therapeutic analysis. Schroeder provides a clear and careful account of the main arguments offered by Wittgenstein. He concludes by considering some critical responses to Wittgenstein's work, assessing its legacy for contemporary philosophy. Wittgenstein is ideal for students seeking a clear and concise introduction to the work of this seminal twentieth-century philosopher.