Wittgenstein's Lectures on Philosophical Psychology, 1946-47
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: Harvester/Wheatsheaf
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
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The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein
Author: Hans Sluga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 110712025X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.
Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures
Author: Yorick Smythies
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-05-08
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1119166330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWittgenstein’s Whewell’s Court Lectures contains previously unpublished notes from lectures given by Ludwig Wittgenstein between 1938 and 1941. The volume offers new insight into the development of Wittgenstein’s thought and includes some of the finest examples of Wittgenstein’s lectures in regard to both content and reliability. Many notes in this text refer to lectures from which no other detailed notes survive, offering new contexts to Wittgenstein’s examples and metaphors, and providing a more thorough and systematic treatment of many topics Each set of notes is accompanied by an editorial introduction, a physical description and dating of the notes, and a summary of their relation to Wittgenstein’s Nachlass Offers new insight into the development of Wittgenstein’s ideas, in particular his ideas about certainty and concept-formation The lectures include more than 70 illustrations of blackboard drawings, which underline the importance of visual thought in Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophy Challenges the dating of some already published lecture notes, including the Lectures on Freedom of the Will and the Lectures on Religious Belief
Lecture on Ethics
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-08-25
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1118842677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’s oeuvre. The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts Transcriptions preserve the philosopher’s emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance
Wittgenstein
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1966-06
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780520013544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1938 Wittgenstein delivered a short course of lectures on aesthetics to a small group of students at Cambridge. The present volume has been compiled from notes taken down at the time by three of the students: Rush Rhees, Yorick Smythies, and James Taylor. They have been supplemented by notes of conversations on Freud (to whom reference was made in the course on aesthetics) between Wittgenstein and Rush Rhees, and by notes of some lectures on religious belief. As very little is known of Wittgenstein's views on these subjects from his published works, these notes should be of considerable interest to students of contemporary philosophy. Further, their fresh and informal style should recommend Wittgenstein to those who find his Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations a little formidable.
Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Author: Matthew B. Ostrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521006491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a strikingly innovative study of the Tractatus.
This New Yet Unapproachable America
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-07-15
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 022603741X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and Wittgenstein. Beginning with an introductory essay that places his own work in a philosophical and historical context, Cavell guides his reader through his thought process when composing and editing his lectures while making larger claims about the influence of institutions on philosophers, and the idea of progress within the discipline of philosophy. In “Declining Decline,” Cavell explains how language modifies human existence, looking specifically at the culture of Wittgenstein’s writings. He draws on Emerson, Thoreau, and many others to make his case that Wittgenstein can indeed be viewed as a “philosopher of culture.” In his final lecture, “Finding as Founding,” Cavell writes in response to Emerson’s “Experience,” and explores the tension between the philosopher and language—that he or she must embrace language as his or her “form of life,” while at the same time surpassing its restrictions. He compares finding new ideas to discovering a previously unknown land in an essay that unabashedly celebrates the power and joy of philosophical thought.
Wittgenstein in Cambridge
Author: Brian McGuinness
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-04-30
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1444350897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge contemporaries Russell, Keynes, Moore, and Ramsey (and previously published as Cambridge Letters). Now expanded to include 200 previously unpublished letters and documents, including correspondence between Wittgenstein and the economist Piero Sraffa, and between Wittgenstein and his pupils Includes extensive editorial annotations Provides a fascinating and intimate insight into Wittgenstein's life and thought
Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Author: Alfred Nordmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-08-25
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521850865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction, first published in 2005, considers the philosophical and literary aspects of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' and shows how they are related.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy
Author: Arthur Gibson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-12-13
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 3030360873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy. The book includes key explanations of the origin and background of these previously unknown manuscripts. It investigates how Wittgenstein’s philosophical thought-processes are revealed in his dictation to, as well as his editing and revision with Francis Skinner, in the latter’s role of amanuensis. The book displays a considerable wealth and variety of Wittgenstein’s fundamental experiments in philosophy across a wide array of subjects that include the mind, pure and applied mathematics, metaphysics, the identities of ordinary and creative language, as well as intractable problems in logic and life. He also periodically engages with the work of Newton, Fermat, Russell and others. The book shows Wittgenstein strongly battling against the limits of understanding and the bewitchment of institutional and linguistic customs. The reader is drawn in by Wittgenstein as he urges us to join him in his struggles to equip us with skills, so that we can embark on devising new pathways beyond confusion. This collection of manuscripts was posted off by Wittgenstein to be considered for publication during World War 2, in October 1941. None of it was published and it remained hidden for over two generations. Upon its rediscovery, Professor Gibson was invited to research, prepare and edit the Archive to appear as this book, encouraged by Trinity College Cambridge and The Mathematical Association. Niamh O’Mahony joined him in co-editing and bringing this book to publication.
