Wittgenstein on logic as the method of philosophy : re-examining the roots and development of analytic philosophy / Oskari Kuusela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuusela, Oskari, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Logic.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 297 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Re-examining the roots and development of analytic philosophy

Reexamining the roots and development of analytic philosophy

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Oskari Kuusela explores Wittgenstein's account of logic in the context of the history of analytic philosophy. He presents Wittgenstein as developing the logical-philosophical approaches of his contemporaries and credits him with resolving the long-standing dispute between the ideal language and ordinary language schools of analytic philosophy.

Contents:

Frege's and Russel's new logic

The tractatus' philosophy of logica dn the logocentric predicament

The Tractatus' philosophy of logic and carnap

Ideality and reality

The method of language-games as a method of logic

Non-empiricist naturalism

Resolving the dispute between ideal and ordinary language approaches.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 11, 2019).

ISBN:

0-19-256532-X

0-19-186825-6

0-19-256531-1