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Ludwig Wittgenstein:

Ludwig Wittgenstein:

Ludwig Wittgenstein

For Wittgenstein, philosophy was an on-going activity. Only in his dialog with the philosophical community and in his private moments does Wittgenstein's philosophical practice fully come to light. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Edward Kanterian

A readable and concise account, Ludwig Wittgenstein is an informative, accessible introduction to the one of the greatest thinkers of our age.
Philosophical Investigations

Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century ...
Bemerkungen Über Die Farben

Bemerkungen Über Die Farben

Ludwig Wittgenstein

This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life.
Big Typescript: TS 213

Big Typescript: TS 213

Ludwig Wittgenstein

This text provided a rich source of material for Wittgenstein’s subsequent writings, and therefore serves as a key to understanding much of his later philosophy.
Wittgenstein: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, ...

Wittgenstein: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

Ray Monk

'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times 'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's philosophy with his life triumphantly carries out ...
Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty

Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty

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This is the first collection of papers devoted to Ludwig Wittgenstein's cryptic but brilliant, On Certainty .
Remarks on Colour / Bermerkungen Uber Die Farben:

Remarks on Colour / Bermerkungen Uber Die Farben:

Ludwig Wittgenstein

This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

In his proposal of the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis, Wittgenstein sets the stage for the development of logical positivism. Introduction by Bertrand Russell.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Edward Kanterian

Yet the philosopher’s passions were not solely confined to theoretical musings, and the book explores Wittgenstein’s immersion in art and music and his social position as a member of the sophisticated Viennese upper class at the turn of ...
Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Meanings of ...

Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Meanings of ...

Roger Paden

A multi-disciplinary study of the house that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein built for his sister in Vienna between 1926 and 1928, this book weaves together ideas taken from a number of disciplines_sociology, political science, ...
Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Ludwig Wittgenstein

An essential resource for students of Wittgenstein, this collection contains faithful, in some cases expanded and corrected, versions of many important pieces never before available in a single volume, including Notes for the 'Philosophical ...
Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology

Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A direct continuation of the writing that makes up the two volumes of Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, this collection offers scholars a glimpse of Wittgenstein's preliminary thinking on one of his most important works.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir

Norman Malcolm

This edition includes also the complete text of the fifty-seven letters which Wittgenstein wrote to Malcolm over a period of eleven years. Apart from the quotations in the Memoir these letters are previously unpublished.
Wittgenstein's Ethical Thought

Wittgenstein's Ethical Thought

Y. Iczkovits

On BeingWith Others: HeideggerDerrida Wittgenstein,Routledge, 1998. Glock, HansJohann. “Perspectives on Wittgenstein: An Intermittently Opinionated Survey,” in Wittgenstein and HisInterprets, editedby Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and ...
Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951

Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951

Ludwig Wittgenstein

[1944] To J. T. Saunders (Assistant Registrary), 16.9.1944 To G. E. Moore, [ October 1944] To R. Rhees, 17.10.[1944] From R. Rhees, 29.10.1944 To G. E. Moore, [November 1944] To N. Malcolm, 16.11.1944 To R. Rhees, 28.11.1944 To P.
Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein

Hans Sluga

Renowned Wittgenstein scholar Hans Sluga first recounts events in Wittgenstein's life in order to illuminate the historical, political, and personal conditions from which his philosophical work emerged.
Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein

Hans Sluga

Renowned Wittgenstein scholar Hans Sluga first recounts events in Wittgenstein's life in order to illuminate the historical, political, and personal conditions from which his philosophical work emerged.
Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life

Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life

Rush Rhees

Lance Ashdown, 'On Reading On Certainty', Philosophical Investigations, vol. 23, no. 4, October 2001. McGinn, Sense and Certainty, pp. 113–14; Stoutland, ' Wittgenstein: On Certainty and Truth', p. 205; Stroll, Moore and Wittgenstein on ...
Recollections of Wittgenstein: Hermine Wittgenstein--Fania ...

Recollections of Wittgenstein: Hermine Wittgenstein--Fania ...

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Essays offer a glimpse of the Vienna-born philosopher's personality, character, and life's work
The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein

The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein

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The essays in this volume address central themes in Wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics.
How to Read Wittgenstein

How to Read Wittgenstein

Ray Monk

In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Wittgenstein's determination to insist on the integrity and the autonomy of nonscientific forms of understanding.
The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and ...

The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and ...

Stanley Cavell

The first three parts of this book deal with the tension between ordinary language philosophy (as envisioned in the writings of J.L. Austin and the later Wittgenstein) and the 'tradition.
Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty

Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty

D. Moyal-Sharrock

This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty , clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal of scepticism.
Doxology and Theology: An Investigation of the Apostles' ...

Doxology and Theology: An Investigation of the Apostles' ...

Paul Galbreath

An Investigation of the Apostles' Creed in Light of Ludwig Wittgenstein Paul Galbreath. This book, which developed from an understanding of the dialectical relationship between theology and the church, provides information about the function ...
Martial Arts and Philosophy: Beating and Nothingness

Martial Arts and Philosophy: Beating and Nothingness

Graham Priest

13. Seeing. Your. Own. Shadow. JOHN HAFFNER and JASON VOGEL ... movement is unmistakable. To use an analogy from the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein 145 Seeing Your Own Shadow JOHN HAFFNER and JASON VOGEL.
Hinge Epistemology

Hinge Epistemology

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Annalisa Coliva, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock. ———. (Forthcoming bbb). “ Wittgenstein: No Linguistic Idealist.” In S. Greve & J. Mácha (eds.), Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Pritchard, D. ( 2011a).
Galileo and the Conflict Between Religion and Science

Galileo and the Conflict Between Religion and Science

Gregory W. Dawes

D. Pritchard, 'Wittgensteinian Quasi-Fideism', in J. L. Kvanvig (ed.), Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of ... 10 D. Moyal-Sharrock, Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 53–54. 11 Wittgenstein, On ...

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