1st Edition

Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Edited By Irving M. Copi, Robert W. Beard Copyright 1966
430 Pages
by Routledge

430 Pages
by Routledge

431 Pages
by Routledge

This is Volume I of eight of a series on Wittgenstein. Originally published in 1966, this is a collection of essays that review and comment on the form, language, Picture Theory in Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’.

INTRODUCTION; REVIEW OF 'TRACTATUS'; REVIEW OF 'TRACTATUS'; SOME REMARKS ON LOGICAL FORM; LOGICAL CONSTRUCTIONS (I); AN EPISTLE; ARE THERE ULTIMATE SIMPLES? STRUCTURE IN SENTENCE AND IN FACT; SOME PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH LANGUAGE; THE PICTURE THEORY OF MEANING; 'TRACTATUS' 3.1432; PICTURES AND FORM IN WITTGENSTEIN'S 'TRACTATUS'; ON WITIGENSTEIN'S 'SOLIPSISM'; 'TRACTATUS' 5.542; OBJECTS, PROPERTIES, AND RELATIONS IN THE 'TRACTATUS'; MR COPlON OBJECTS, PROPERTIES, AND RELATIONS IN THE 'TRACTATUS'; 'TRACTATUS' 6.3751; SCIENTIFIC LAWS AND SCIENTIFIC OBJECTS IN THE 'TRACTATUS'’ PROFESSOR STENIUS ON THE 'TRACTATUS'; WITIGENSTEIN'S THREE LANGUAGES; NAMING AND SAYING; WITTGENSTEIN'S PICTURE-THEORY OF LANGUAGE; WITIGENSTEIN'S NOTION OF AN OBJECT; ON THE PICTURE THEORY OF LANGUAGE: EXCERPTS FROM A REVIEW WITTGENSTEIN'S PICTURE-THEORY; THE 'TRACTATUS': NOMINALISTIC OR REALISTIC? THE GLORY AND THE MISERY OF LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN; WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE MYSTICAL; WITTGENSTEIN'S PICTURE THEORY OF LANGUAGE

Biography

Irving M. Copi, University of Michigan; Robert W. Beard Florida State University