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21. Philosophy and the Vision of Language

    By Paul Livingston

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

    Philosophy and the Vision of Language explores the history and enduring significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical reflection. It traces the implications of the access to language in some of the most prominent projects...

    Published June 6th 2010 by Routledge
22. Wittgenstein at Work

    Method in the Philosophical Investigations

    Edited by Erich Ammereller, Eugen Fischer

    The later Wittgenstein is notoriously hard to understand. His novel philosophical approach is the key to understanding his perplexing work. This volume assembles leading Wittgenstein scholars to come to grips with its least well understood aspect: the unfamiliar aims and method that shape...

    Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
23. Blind Obedience

    The Structure and Content of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy

    By Meredith Williams

    There is considerable debate amongst philosophers as to the basic philosophical problem Wittgenstein is attempting to solve in Philosophical Investigations. In this bold and original work, Meredith Williams argues that it is the problem of "normative similarity". In Blind Obedience Williams...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
24. Wittgenstein and Other Minds

    Rethinking Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity with Wittgenstein, Levinas, and Husserl

    By Soren Overgaard

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

    A compelling new approach to the problem that has haunted twentieth century philosophy in both its analytical and continental shapes. No other book addresses as thoroughly the parallels between Wittgenstein and leading Continental philosophers such as Levinas, Husserl, and Heidegger....

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
25. Piero Sraffa: The Man and the Scholar

    Exploring His Unpublished Papers

    Edited by Heinz D. Kurz, Luigi Pasinetti, Neri Salvadori

    Previously published as special issues of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and The Review of Political Economy, this volume contains the papers devoted to the life and work of Piero Sraffa. Sraffa was a leading intellectual of the twentieth century. He was brought to...

    Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
26. Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments

    Edited by Edoardo Zamuner, D. K. Levy

    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
27. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus

    By Michael Morris

    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
28. Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language

    Some Aspects of its Development

    By James Bogen

    Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge
29. The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy

    By Peter Winch

    Series: Routledge Classics

    In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young and...

    Published September 2nd 2007 by Routledge
30. Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action

    Praxeological Investigations

    By Roderick Long

    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