Wittgenstein's Philosophy in 1929

ISBN-13: 9781032288536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Opis

This book explores the impact of the year 1929 on the development of Wittgenstein’s thought. The contributors generate important new insights for understanding Wittgenstein’s philosophy and his place in the history of analytic philosophy.

Spis treści

Introduction: Wittgenstein in 1929 ; Part 1: Mathematics and Thinking the New;1. Wittgenstein’s Struggle with Intuitionism ; 2. The Origins of Wittgenstein’s Verificationism ; 3. Searching in Space vs. Groping in the Dark: Wittgenstein on Novelty and Imagination in 1929-30 ; Part 2: Method and Development ;4. The Color-Exclusion Problem and the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Logic ; 5. What Would It Look Like? Wittgenstein’s Radical Thought Experiments ; 6. Phenomenological Language: "not possible" or "not necessary"? ; 7. Hypotheses as Expectations: Ramsey and Wittgenstein 1929 ; Part 3: Phenomenology and Visual Space;8. Simplicity in Wittgenstein’s 1929 Manuscripts ; 9. Temptations of Purity: Phenomenological Language and Immediate Experience ; 10. Speaking of the Given: The Structure of Visual Space and the Limits of Language ; Part 4: Ethics;11. The Good, the Divine, and the Supernatural ;

O autorze

Florian Franken Figueiredo is Postdoctoral Researcher at the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is the author of the monograph Praxis und Gründe (2017). Among his recent articles are "On the concept of childhood in Wittgenstein’s ‘Philosophical Investigations’" (2022) and "Wittgenstein’s 1929-30 inquiries into probability" (2022).