Wittgenstein on realism and idealism / David R. Cerbone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cerbone, David R., author.

Series:

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

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Realism.

Idealism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (70 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This Element concerns Wittgenstein's evolving attitude toward the opposition between realism and idealism in philosophy. Despite the marked - and sometimes radical - changes Wittgenstein's thinking undergoes from the early to the middle to the later period, there is an underlying continuity in terms of his unwillingness at any point to endorse either position in a straightforward manner. Instead, Wittgenstein can be understood as rejecting both positions, while nonetheless seeing insights in each position worth retaining. The author traces these "neither-nor" and "both-and" strands of Wittgenstein's attitude toward realism and idealism to his - again, evolving - insistence on seeing language and thought as worldly phenomena. That thought and language are about the world and happen amidst the world they are about undermines the attempt to formulate any kind of general thesis concerning their interrelation.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism

Contents

Introduction

1 The Early Wittgenstein

1.1 Pictures and Picturing

1.2 From Solipsism to Realism

2 The Middle Wittgenstein

2.1 Language and World

2.2 Space and Spaces: Logic and Grammar

2.3 Realism and Idealism Reconsidered

3 The Later Wittgenstein

3.1 Against Essence: Variety and Indeterminacy

3.2 The Natural and the Magical

3.3 The Whole Hurly-Burly

3.4 The Persistence of Idealism

4 Coda: Remarks on On Certainty

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781108922210

110892221X

9781108922708

1108922708

9781108920766

1108920764

OCLC:

1427582222