Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts. Vol.1 - Proceedings of the 33rd International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2010

Diagrams are an essential part of the most diverse processes of communication and cognition. Indeed, today the production of all kinds of text (including this one) is mediated by diagrammatic tools to be found on computer desktops. Not surprisingly, then, diagrams have become the object of much historical and theoretical work. This book - volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium - is dedicated to this quickly growing field of interdisciplinary research. It includes contributions from philosophy, sociology (space syntax), art history, and history of science. Historically, there is a focus on Otto Neurath and his famous visual language (ISOTYPE), while the new attempts at theorizing diagrams presented here are mainly inspired by Charles Sanders Peirce and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

About the author

Elisabeth Nemeth, Studium der Philosophie, Psychologie, Pädagogik und kath. Theologie an der Universität Wien, seit 2000 a.o. Universitätsprofessorin am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zur Philosophie des Wiener Kreises.

Product details

• Assisted by: Richard Heinrich (Editor), Elisabeth Nemeth (Editor), Wolfram Pichler (Editor), David Wagner (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9783868381153
• ISBN: 978-3-86838-115-3
• No. of pages: 414
• Weight: 650 g
• Series: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries