Wittgenstein's Thought and Legacy
Wittgenstein on Mathematics
1st Edition
By Severin Schroeder
September 25, 2023
This book offers a detailed account and discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics. In Part I, the stage is set with a brief presentation of Frege’s logicist attempt to provide arithmetic with a foundation and Wittgenstein’s criticisms of it, followed by sketches of Wittgenstein’...
Wittgenstein and Naturalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin M. Cahill, Thomas Raleigh
August 14, 2020
Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality. He also developed innovative views about the status and methodology of philosophy and was explicitly opposed to crudely "scientistic" worldviews. His later thought has thus often been ...
Wittgenstein on Sensation and Perception
1st Edition
By Michael Hymers
June 30, 2020
This book offers two novel claims about Wittgenstein’s views and methods on perception as explored in the Philosophical Investigations. The first is an interpretive claim about Wittgenstein: that his views on sensation and perception, including his critique of private language, have their roots in ...
Wittgenstein on Thought and Will
1st Edition
By Roger Teichmann
August 14, 2018
This book examines in detail Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ideas on thought, thinking, will and intention, as those ideas developed over his lifetime. It also puts his ideas into context by a comparison both with preceding thinkers and with subsequent ones. The first chapter gives an account of the ...