Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100

by Martin Stokhof (Editor), Hao Tang (Editor)

Overview

The 100th anniversary of the first publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is celebrated by a collection of original papers by well-known experts on various aspects of one of the greatest works of philosophy in the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031298639
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/22/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	701 KB

About the Author

Martin Stokhof is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Jin Yuelin Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Hao Tang is Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He studied history and philosophy of science (MA) and philosophy (PhD) at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and the epistemology of logic.- 3 Resolution Re-examined.- 4 Ethics in the Tractatus. A Condition of the Possibility of Meaning?.- 5 On the transcendental ethics of the Tractatus.- 6 Metaphysics and Magic: Echoes of the Tractatus in Wittgenstein’s ‘Remarks on Frazer’.- 7 The Tractatus and the Carnapian Conception of Syntax.- 8 The only strictly correct method of philosophy: logical analysis and anti-metaphysical dialectic.- 9 Wittgenstein’s Tractatus in Context.- 10 The Tractatus and Modernism: Dialectics, Apocalypse and Ethics.