Wittgensteins Philosophy in 1929

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.

List of contents

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 ;

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Florian Franken (Nova University Lisbo Figueiredo
• Assisted by: Florian Franken Figueiredo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2023
• EAN: 9781032288536
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228853-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Western philosophy from c 1800, c 1920 to c 1929, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -