Wittgenstein and Russell / Sanford Shieh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shieh, Sanford, 1962- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein 2632-7112.

Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judgment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Responding to Russell is a constant throughout Wittgenstein's philosophizing. This Element focuses on Wittgenstein's criticisms of Russell's theories of judgment in the summer of 1913. Wittgenstein's response to these criticisms is of first-rate importance for his early philosophical development, setting the path to the conceptions of proposition and of logic in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. This Element also touches on further aspects of Wittgenstein's responses to Russell: the rejection of Russell's and Frege's logicisms in the Tractatus, the critique of Russell's causal-behavioristic philosophy of mind in Wittgenstein's 'middle' period, the Russellian origins of notions of privacy dialectically treated in Philosophical Investigations, and the discussion of 'surveyability' of mathematical proof in Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, which is, again, a response to Russellian logicism.-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

Russell's multiple-relation theories

Wittgenstein against multiple-relation theories

Notes on "logic"

A wartime notebook

Tractatus

Logic and logicism

After multiple-relation theories

A closing word

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Feb 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781108944212

1108944213

9781108946858

1108946852