Approaches to Wittgenstein brings together for the first time the many varied aspects of Wittgenstein's life, philosophy, and aesthetic attitudes.
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'A valuable contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship. McGuiness displays throughout an immense knowledge of Wittgenstein's life and work, and admirably succeeds in putting it at the service of explaining the difficult ideas of this great philosopher.' Philosophical Quarterly
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Brian McGuiness was previously a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor at the University of Siena in Ital;y. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Graz, Austria. He has translated (with Davd Pears) Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1961) and Prototractatus (1971), both published by Routledge. He is author of the acclaimed biography, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921.
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'Was der Gescheite weiB,' said Goethe, 'ist schwer zu wissen',-'What a clever man knows is hard to know'; and there is truth as well as irony in this saying. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wartime notebooks, normal philosophy, elementary propositions, ordinary propositions, propositional sign, apparent variables, logical constants, same logical form, atomic fact, philosophical remarks, picture theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First World War, Vienna Circle, Philosophical Investigations, Hermine Wittgenstein, Schlick Circle, Bertrand Russell, Miss Ishiguro, Miss Anscombe, Philosophische Bemerkungen, Max Zweig, Professor Stenius, Tractatus Wittgenstein, Hermann Christian, Karl Kraus, Rush Rhees, Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Margaret Stonborough, Paul Engelmann, Brenner Archiv, Court Jews, Fania Pascal, Frank Ramsey, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Moral Sciences Club, Philosophical Grammar New!
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'Was der Gescheite weiB,' said Goethe, 'ist schwer zu wissen',-'What a clever man knows is hard to know'; and there is truth as well as irony in this saying. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wartime notebooks, normal philosophy, elementary propositions, ordinary propositions, propositional sign, apparent variables, logical constants, same logical form, atomic fact, philosophical remarks, picture theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First World War, Vienna Circle, Philosophical Investigations, Hermine Wittgenstein, Schlick Circle, Bertrand Russell, Miss Ishiguro, Miss Anscombe, Philosophische Bemerkungen, Max Zweig, Professor Stenius, Tractatus Wittgenstein, Hermann Christian, Karl Kraus, Rush Rhees, Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Margaret Stonborough, Paul Engelmann, Brenner Archiv, Court Jews, Fania Pascal, Frank Ramsey, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Moral Sciences Club, Philosophical Grammar New!
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- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 16 pages
- On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 10 pages
- Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 7 pages
- Our Knowledge of the External World by Bertrand Russell on page 125, page 247, and Back Matter
- Our Knowledge of the External World by Bertrand Russell on page 125, page 247, and Back Matter
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- Wittgenstein Reads Weininger by David G. Stern on page 134, and page 195
- Wittgensteins "Philosophische Untersuchungen": Vom Buch zum Album (Studien zur Österreichischen Philosophie 36) by Alois Pichler on page 311
- Wittgenstein's Tractatus: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts) by Alfred Nordmann in Back Matter
- Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Language and Logic by Marie McGinn in Back Matter
- Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy (The Evolution of Modern Philosophy) by Michael Losonsky in Back Matter
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