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Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments
Fifty years after Wittgenstein's death, his philosophy and the arguments it embodied remain vital and applicable. Wittgenstein's Enduring Arguments illustrates the use of Wittgenstein's thought for continuing philosophical debates, old and new. Featuring essays by leading international philosophers...
Published October 30th 2008 by Routledge
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus
Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein’s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He introduces and analyzes:...
Published October 16th 2008 by Routledge
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Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language
Some Aspects of its Development
Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge
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Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action
Praxeological Investigations
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy
Fascinating and thought-provoking, this book shows how the methodology of Austrian economics can be justified and strengthened by grounding it in the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Frege and Wittgenstein argued that whatever counts as thought must embody logical principles. Their arguments also...
Published October 29th 2006 by Routledge
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Wittgenstein and Levinas
Ethical and Religious Thought
Wittgenstein and Levinas examines the oft-neglected relationship between the philosophies of two of the most important and notoriously difficult thinkers of the twentieth century. By bringing the work of each philosopher to bear upon the other, Plant navigates between the antagonistic intellectual...
Published October 16th 2006 by Routledge
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Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life
Wittgenstein's later writings generate a great deal of controversy and debate, as do the implications of his ideas for such topics as consciousness, knowledge, language and the arts.Oswald Hanfling addresses a widespeard tendency to ascribe to Wittgenstein views that go beyond those he actually...
Published October 1st 2006 by Routledge
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Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology,...
Published April 30th 2006 by Routledge
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Approaches to Wittgenstein
Approaches to Wittgenstein brings together for the first time the many varied aspects of Wittgenstein's life, philosophy, and aesthetic attitudes....
Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
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Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI
Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI is a valuable contribution to the study of Wittgenstein's theories and his controversial attack on artifical intelligence, which successfully crosses a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, logic, artificial intelligence and...
Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge