Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein''s Tractatus

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Russell's theories of judgment


• 2: Wittgenstein and forms


• 3: The vanishing subject


• 4: Propositions and facts


• 5: The limits of representation


• 6: Logic and analysis


• Conclusion


• APPENDIX I: Other readings of the nonsense objection


• APPENDIX II: The empty-name reading of the substance passage

About the author

José L. Zalabardo is a Professor of Philosophy at University College London. He was Head of the UCL Philosophy Department from 2014 to 2018. He was born in Madrid, and educated at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the University of St. Andrews, and the University of Michigan, where he obtained a PhD in 1994. He was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 1994 to 2000, when he joined UCL. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and collective volumes. He is also the author of Introduction to the Theory of Logic (Westview Press, 2000) and Scepticism and Reliable Belief (OUP, 2012), and the editor of Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy (OUP, 2012).

Summary

José L. Zalabardo presents a new account of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus on the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He explores Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation, the unity of facts and propositions, and the nature of everyday propositions.

Additional text

The book is full of interesting insights.

Product details

• Authors: Jos^d''e L. (Professor of Philosophy Zalabardo, José L. Zalabardo, Jose L. (Professor of Philosophy Zalabardo
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2019
• EAN: 9780198822745
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882274-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -