This book offers a detailed account and discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics. In Part I, the stage is set with a brief presentation of Frege’s logicist attempt to provide arithmetic with a foundation and Wittgenstein’s criticisms of it, followed by sketches of Wittgenstein’s early views of mathematics, in the Tractatus and in the early 1930s. Then (in P...(展开全部)

The question of what Wittgenstein meant by 'forms of life' has attracted a great deal of attention in the literature, yet it is an expression that Wittgenstein himself employs on only a relatively small number of occasions, and that he does not explicitly define. This Element gives a description of this concept that also explains Wittgenstein's reluctance to say much about it. ...(展开全部)

The question of what Wittgenstein meant by 'forms of life' has attracted a great deal of attention in the literature, yet it is an expression that Wittgenstein himself employs on only a relatively small number of occasions, and that he does not explicitly define. This Element gives a description of this concept that also explains Wittgenstein's reluctance to say much about it. ...(展开全部)

In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgensteina s analysis of the notion of following a rule.

In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgensteina s analysis of the notion of following a rule.

A. C. 格雷林　伦敦大学伯克贝学院哲学高级讲师、牛津大学圣安妮学院特约研究员。著有《哲学逻辑导论》（1982）、《驳怀疑论》（1986）、《贝克莱：中心论证》（1986）等书。担任《卫报》专栏作者多年，并为《观察家》、《经济学人》等刊物撰稿。

Wittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought from his early work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to the posthumous publication of On Certainty , notes written just prior to his death. A substantial scholarly addition to our understanding of one of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth centu...(展开全部)

Wittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought from his early work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to the posthumous publication of On Certainty , notes written just prior to his death. A substantial scholarly addition to our understanding of one of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth centu...(展开全部)