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- Explores Wittgenstein's philosophy throughout his career
- Written from the viewpoint of critical rationalism
- Features a friendly and appreciative yet critical tone
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 401)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein's philosophy throughout the different stages of his career. The author writes from the viewpoint of critical rationalism. The tone of his analysis is friendly and appreciative yet critical.
Of these papers, seven are on the background to the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Five papers examine different aspects of it: one on the philosophy of young Wittgenstein, one on his transitional period, and the final three on the philosophy of mature Wittgenstein, chiefly his Philosophical Investigations. The last of these papers, which serves as the concluding chapter, concerns the analytical school of philosophy that grew chiefly under its influence.
Wittgenstein’s posthumous Philosophical Investigations ignores formal languages while retaining the view of metaphysics as meaningless -- declaring that all languages are metaphysics-free. It was very popular in the middle of the twentieth century. Now it is passé. Wittgenstein hadhoped to dissolve all philosophical disputes, yet he generated a new kind of dispute. His claim to have improved the philosophy of life is awkward just because he prevented philosophical discussion from the ability to achieve that: he cut the branch on which he was sitting. This, according to the author, is the most serious critique of Wittgenstein.Keywords
- Rationalist philosophy Wittgenstein
- Language analysis Wittgenstein
- Analytic philosophy Wittgenstein
- Russell versus Wittgenstein
- Popper versus Wittgenstein
- Wittgenstein versus his heirs
- Wittgenstein’s contribution
- Anti-Metaphysics Wittgenstein
- Critical rationalism Wittgenstein
- Ordinary Language Analysis Wittgenstein
- Wittgenstein Carnap
- Russell Wittgenstein
- Frege Wittgenstein
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Joseph Agassi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
Book Subtitle: An Attempt at a Critical Rationalist Appraisal
Authors: Joseph Agassi
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00117-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00116-2Published: 05 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00117-9Published: 23 November 2018
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 295
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Analytic Philosophy, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Semantics