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12 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Blackwell Publishers, 1969

A fine book
This is one of the greatest books I have ever read--and I've read quite a few books.

Intention

5 reviews
G. E. M Anscombe

Cornell University Press, 1974

Reflections on an oft-neglected subject
G.E.M. Anscombe, a student of Wittgenstein, uses an approach that is reminsicent of her old teacher by dividing her book into individual reflections on aspects of what it means to intend to do something. This method invites the reader to meditate on this topic and does a powerful job to help one realize what a mystery intention is, and shows just how much depth there is to human action and ...

Remarks on Colour

2 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Wittgensteinian stream of consciousness on aspects of color
This is not a polished, coherent work but simply, as the title suggests, collected scattered thoughts, questions and observations on color. Wittgenstein is most interested in issues of clarity, purity, transparency, luminosity, muddiness, mixing and shading of colors. Also in the nature of individual colors, such as brown, which can't be "pure" and is not a rainbow color; in how white and black, ...

An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus

3 reviews
G. E. M. Anscombe

Hutchinson, 1967

The reviewer who mentions the irony of Wittgentstein and Anscombe's friendship is incorrect.
Throughout most of his adult life, Wittgenstein flirted with conversion to the Catholic faith. Don't read the Tractatus and fall into the naive trap of logical positivism. Wittgenstein was above all concerned with fighting the modern, secular worldview and promoting a religious one. Though he did not explicitly endorse scripturual stories as literal truth, he was concerned to promote a ...

Notebooks, 1914-1916

2 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

University Of Chicago Press, 1984

A Thankful Supplement to Wittgenstein's Most Difficult Text
In 1950, Wittgenstein tried to have all of his old notebooks destroyed. Thankfully, three sets of texts escaped this unhappy fate. The first two are some of Wittgenstein's personal notebooks from August 1914 to October 1915, found at the house of his sister; these comprise the main content of this book. The third set consists of three texts from the collection of Bertrand Russell, which are ...

Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics

2 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Some remarks on Remarks...
If you are interested in the philosophy of mathematics, this is the book for you! No special knowledge of mathematics or philosophy is needed to read and understand this book. Some prior experience with philosophy would be helpful, though,just to get you used to discussing philosophy. Some reading of other philosophy books by Wittgenstein, especially Philosophical Investigations or On ...

Philosophical investigations;: The English text of the third edition

26 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Macmillan, 1973

Learn from it but there is no need to worship it
This is a book which at one time was worshipped. It was taken to be the holy text that gave the true answers to the philosophical puzzles that graduate students in philosophy were puzzling over. Wittgenstein was the hero and his manner of ' doing philosophy' of walking and holding his forehead, and waiting in silence and thinking for long stretches of time while puzzling it out was imitated by ...

Collected Philosophical Papers: Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind

1 review
G. E. M. Anscombe

Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1981

the source for the reply to C. S. Lewis
People interested in the controversy between Anscombe and C. S. Lewis should read this before they read any nonsense written by Lewis biographers like A. N. Wilson. She reprinted her original response to Lewis, a short reply that Lewis put in the very issue of the Socratic Digest that contained her paper, and also a very useful commentary on the chapter of Miracles that Lewis revised to meet her ...

On Certainty

14 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Blackwell Publishers, 1969

My favorite Wittgenstein
"On Certainty" represents a much more honed work than the more common "Philosophical Investigations," though the depth of its insights are no less than than that work. OC is, by far, my favorite Wittgenstein book because it focuses so much on epistemological issues. Some examples include showing the error realists _and_ idealists are making (showing the fly the way out of the bottle), why there ...

Zettel

2 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

University of California Press, 1970

Buy This Book First
Before you buy one of the books on Wittgenstein's thought about philosophical psychology, buy the Philosophical Investigations and Zettel. Most of the notes in these other "books" are alternate workings of thoughts already expressed in better form in the Investigations and this volume.

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