Wittgenstein's Tractatus : History and Interpretation
ISBN: 9780199665785 | 0199665788
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/5/2013
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These new studies of Wittgenstein's Tractatus represent a significant step beyond recent polemical debate. They cover a wide range of themes, and show that close investigation into the composition of the Tractatus, and into the various influences on it, has much to yield in revealing the complexity and fertility of Wittgenstein's early thought.
This volume of newly written chapters on the history and interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus represents a significant step beyond the polemical debate between broad i... MORE
This volume of newly written chapters on the history and interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus represents a significant step beyond the polemical debate between broad i... MORE
1. Introduction, Michael Potter and Peter Sullivan
2. Wittgenstein's pre-Tractatus manuscripts: a new appraisal, Michael Potter
3. Why does Wittgenstein say that ethics and aesthetics are one and the same?, Hanne Appelqvist
4. Kierkegaard and the Tractatus, Genia Schonbaumsfeld
5. What is Frege's 'concept horse problem'?, Ian Proops
6. Tractatus 5.4611: 'Signs for logical operations are punctuation marks', Peter Milne
7. Logical segmentation and generality in Wittgenst... MORE
Peter Sullivan is a Professor at the University of Stirling where he has taught since 1993. The primary focus of his published work has been on the founding figures of analytic philosophy: Frege, Russell, the early Wittgenstein, and Ramsey.
Michael Potter, University Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge . He is the author of Sets (OUP, 1990), Reason's Nearest Kin (OUP, 2000), Set Theory and its Philosophy (OUP, 2004), and Mathematical Knowledge (edited with Mary Leng and Alexander Paseau, OUP, 2007).
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