Wittgenstein in Florida: Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Florida State University, 7-8 August 1989

ISBN-13: 9789401055734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 329 str.

Jaakko Hintikka

Opis

Most of the papers appearing in volume 87 numbers, 1-2 are based on papers presented at the Colloquium on the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein held at the Department of Philosophy at Florida State University on 7-8 April 1989. We owe warm thanks to Florida State University for generously supporting this colloquium. The English translation of the chapter entitled 'Philosophie', from Wittgenstein's typescript number 213 (von Wright), appears here with permission of Wittgenstein's literary heirs, without affecting existing copyrights. The original German version of this chapter was edited by Heikki Nyman and appeared in Revue Internationale de Philosophie 43 (1989), pp. 175-203. Jaakko Hintikka's article (87, No.2) first appeared in a shorter form in The Times Literary Supplement No. 4565 (28 September to 4 October 1990, p. 1030). The present version appears with the permis sion of The Times Literary Supplement, which is gratefully acknowl edged. Our thanks are due to all the participants of the colloquium and the contributors to these special numbers.

Spis treści

I.- Philosophy: Sections 86–93 (pp. 405–35) of the so-called “Big Typescript” (Catalog Number 213).- Tautology: How not to Use a Word.- The Philosophy of Logical Wholism.- Wittgenstein’s Philosophies of Mathematics.- Wittgenstein on 2, 2, 2…: The Opening of Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics.- An Impatient Man and his Papers.- The “Middle Wittgenstein”: From Logical Atomism to Practical Holism.- The Development of Wittgenstein’s Views about the Other Minds Problem.- Philosophy in the Big Typescript: Philosophy as Trivial.- Wittgenstein’s Account of Rule-Following.- Wittgenstein and “Mad Pain”.- Moore’s Paradox Revisited.- Elements of a Wittgensteinian Philosophy of the Human Sciences.

O autorze

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.