Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic

Zusatztext a highly illuminating historical and biographical narrative ... Potter's book is a rather impressive accomplishment in early analytic scholarship. Informationen zum Autor Michael Potter is Reader in the Philosophy of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He is the author of Sets (OUP, 1990), Reason's Nearest Kin (OUP, 2000), Set Theory and its Philosophy (OUP, 2004), and Mathematical Knowledge (edited with Mary Leng and Alexander Paseau, OUP, 2007). Zusammenfassung Michael Potter shows, for the first time, that Wittgenstein's early Notes on Logic are a work of philosophical and historical importance. Using a challenging blend of biography and philosophy, he draws new conclusions about the nature of the Notes, the genesis of the Tractatus, and Wittgenstein's working methods.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Potter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.12.2008, delayed
• EAN: 9780199215836
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921583-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: logic, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -