Understanding Wittgenstein
โ Scribed by Royal Institute of Philosophy (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 306
- Series
- Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
The Ghost of the Tractatus....Pages 1-13
Can Whether One Proposition Makes Sense Depend on the Truth of Another? (Tractatus 2.0211โ2)....Pages 14-29
Questions on Logical Inference....Pages 30-48
The Grundgedanke of the Tractatus....Pages 49-61
Wittgenstein on Russellโs Theory of Judgment....Pages 62-75
Wittgenstein and Idealism....Pages 76-95
Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, And Ethics....Pages 96-116
How to Read Wittgenstein....Pages 117-132
Wittgenstein on Persons and Human Beings....Pages 133-148
Other Minds....Pages 149-161
Wittgenstein on the Soul....Pages 162-192
The โPrejudice in Favour of Psychophysical Parallelismโ....Pages 193-207
Silent Soliloquy....Pages 208-225
Wittgenstein on Certainty....Pages 226-245
Wittgensteinโs Theory of Knowledge....Pages 246-267
Back Matter....Pages 269-285
โฆ Subjects
Modern Philosophy
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