Wittgensteins Notes On Logic

Author : Michael Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199215839
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic written by Michael Potter and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Potter shows, for the first time, that Wittgenstein's early Notes on Logic are a work of philosophical and historical importance. Using a challenging blend of biography and philosophy, he draws new conclusions about the nature of the Notes, the genesis of the Tractatus, and Wittgenstein's working methods.

Author : Michael Potter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199596355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic written by Michael Potter and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Potter shows, for the first time, that Wittgenstein's early Notes on Logic are a work of philosophical and historical importance. Using a challenging blend of biography and philosophy, he draws new conclusions about the nature of the Notes, the genesis of the Tractatus, and Wittgenstein's working methods.

Author : Michael Potter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199215839
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic written by Michael Potter and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Potter shows, for the first time, that Wittgenstein's early Notes on Logic are a work of philosophical and historical importance. Using a challenging blend of biography and philosophy, he draws new conclusions about the nature of the Notes, the genesis of the Tractatus, and Wittgenstein's working methods.

Author : Michael Potter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019155068X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic written by Michael Potter and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein's philosophical career began in 1911 when he went to Cambridge to work with Russell. He compiled the Notes on Logic two years later as a kind of summary of the work he had done so far. Russell thought that they were 'as good as anything that has ever been done in logic', but he had Wittgenstein himself to explain them to him. Without the benefit of Wittgenstein's explanations, most later scholars have preferred to treat the Notes solely as an interpretative aid in understanding the Tractatus (which draws on them for material), rather than as a philosophical work in their own right. Michael Potter unequivocally demonstrates the philosophical and historical importance of the Notes for the first time. By teasing out the meaning of key passages, he shows how many of the most important insights in the Tractatus they contain. He discusses in detail how Wittgenstein arrived at these insights by thinking through ideas he obtained from Russell and Frege. And he uses a challenging blend of biography and philosophy to illuminate the methods Wittgenstein used in his work. The book features the complete text of the Notes in a critical edition, with a detailed discussion of the circumstances in which they were compiled, leading to a new understanding of how they should be read.

Author : Oskari Kuusela
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192565311
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy written by Oskari Kuusela and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their philosophical significance in early and middle analytic philosophy with particular reference to Frege, Russell, Carnap, and Strawson. He argues that not only the early but also the later Wittgenstein sought to further develop the logical-philosophical approaches of his contemporaries. Throughout his career Wittgenstein's aim was to resolve problems with and address the limitations of Frege's and Russell's accounts of logic and their logical methodologies so as to achieve the philosophical progress that originally motivated the logical-philosophical approach. By re-examining the roots and development of analytic philosophy, Kuusela seeks to open up covered up paths for the further development of analytic philosophy. Offering a novel interpretation of the philosopher, he explains how Wittgenstein extends logical methodology beyond calculus-based logical methods and how his novel account of the status of logic enables one to do justice to the complexity and richness of language use and thought while retaining rigour and ideals of logic such as simplicity and exactness. In addition, this volume outlines the new kind of non-empiricist naturalism developed in Wittgenstein's later work and explaining how his account of logic can be used to dissolve the long-standing methodological dispute between the ideal and ordinary language schools of analytic philosophy. It is of interest to scholars, researchers, and advance students of philosophy interested in engaging with a number of scholarly debates.

Author : Penelope Maddy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199391769
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logical Must written by Penelope Maddy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Logical Must is an examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, early and late, undertaken from an austere naturalistic perspective Penelope Maddy has called "Second Philosophy." The Second Philosopher is a humble but tireless inquirer who begins her investigation of the world with ordinary perceptual beliefs, moves from there to empirical generalizations, then to deliberate experimentation, and eventually to theory formation and confirmation. She takes this same approach to logical truth, locating its ground in simple worldly structures and our knowledge of it in our basic cognitive machinery, tuned by evolutionary pressures to detect those structures where they occur. In his early work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein also links the logical structure of representation with the structure of the world, but he includes one key unnaturalistic assumption: that the sense of our representations must be given prior to-independently of-facts about how the world is. When that assumption is removed, the general outlines of the resulting position come surprisingly close to the Second Philosopher's roughly empirical account. In his later discussions of logic in Philosophical Investigations and Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Wittgenstein also rejects this earlier assumption in favor of a picture that arises in the wake of the famous rule-following considerations. Here Wittgenstein and the Second Philosopher operate in even closer harmony-locating the ground of our logical practices in our interests, our natural inclinations and abilities, and very general features of the world-until the Second Philosopher moves to fill in the account with her empirical investigations of the world and cognition. At this point, Wittgenstein balks, but as a matter of personal animosity rather than philosophical principle.

Author : Marie McGinn
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0199244448
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elucidating the Tractatus written by Marie McGinn and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie McGinn provides a clear, comprehensive, and original interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and of its relation to Wittgenstein's later work. The Tractatus is one of the most famous works of early analytic philosophy, the interpretation of which has always been a matter for controversy and is currently the focus for an important philosophical debate.

Author : Christian Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110518287
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Form(s) of Life, and Logic written by Christian Martin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life. All contributions engage with Wittgenstein’s approach to this topic. As a whole, the volume takes a stance against both biological and ethnological interpretations of the notion "form of life" and seeks to promote a broadly logico-linguistic understanding instead. The structure of this book is threefold. Part one focuses on lines of thinking that lead from Wittgenstein’s earlier thought to the concept of form of life in his later work. Contributions to part two examine the concrete philosophical function of this notion as well as the ways in which it differs from cognate concepts. Contributions to part three put Wittgenstein’s notion of form of life in perspective by relating it to phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy and problems in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Author : José L. Zalabardo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198743947
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by José L. Zalabardo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He shows the origins of Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation in Russell's theories of judgment, arguing that the picture theory is Wittgenstein's solution to some of the problems that he found in Russell's position. Zalabardo defends the view that, for Wittgenstein, facts in general, and the facts that play the role of propositions in particular, are not composite items, arising from the combination of their constituents. They are ultimate, irreducible units, and what we think of as their constituents are features that facts have in common with one another. These common features have built into them their possibilities of combination with other features into possible situations. This is the source of the Tractarian account of non-actual possibilities. It is also the source of the idea that it is not possible to produce propositions answering to certain descriptions, including those that would give rise to Russell's paradox. Zalabardo then considers Wittgenstein's view that every proposition is a truth function of elementary propositions. He argues that this view is motivated by Wittgenstein's epistemology of logic, according to which we should be able to see logical relations by inspecting the structures of propositions. Finally, Zalabardo considers the problems that we face if we try to extend the application of the picture theory from elementary propositions to truth functions of these.

Author : James Griffin
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism written by James Griffin and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the central topics of Wittgenstein's philosophy prior to and within the first parts of the Tractatus, covering such subjects as objects, substance, states of affairs, elementary propositions, pictures, and thoughts. He concludes that analysis is reduction to what is basic not in experience but in reference, and argues that the Tractatus is concerned not with problems of knowledge but with problems of sense.