{"title":"Wittgenstein: Philosophy and literature","authors":"B. Mcguinness","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.367","url":null,"abstract":"In studying Wittgenstein’s writings form must be considered alongside content.Logic, aesthetics and ethics (his main preoccupations as they wereWeininger’s) all depend upon the manner of seeing or presenting theirobjects. Even the arguments in the Tractatus are recommended as much fortheir limitations (even their circularity) as for their cogency. The work wasliterary (to Frege’s dismay) and ethical (as Ficker should have seen) as well aslogical. Its ironical conclusion was that the propositions of logic said nothing.Wittgenstein’s second main work, the Philosophical Investigations, is areaction to a certain dogmatism that he himself developed in his discussionswith members of the Vienna Circle and with Ramsey. From Sraffa and fromSpengler he learnt that there was no essence of language and that his workmust consist in showing different language games with only a family resemblance.The willed divagations of his prepared texts in later life are an illustrationof what they argue for.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"326 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115153410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is a work by Wittgenstein","authors":"J. Schulte","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.397","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a brief description of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass is given, and twoquestions regarding the status of the existing editions of Wittgenstein’s writingsvis-a-vis his Nachlass are distinguished. It is argued that for being able togive an answer to the question what to count as a “work” by Wittgenstein itis indispensable to take his method of working into account. Three criteriaare proposed that may help to decide the title question.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129791193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wittgenstein’s Later Criticism of the Tractatus","authors":"James F. Conant","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.172","url":null,"abstract":"The paper represents an effort to advance the debate between those whoadvocate resolute readings of Wittgenstein and those who deplore them. Itseeks to do so by, on the one hand, attempting to correct certain misunderstandingsof such readings (explaining, in effect, why they amount to caricatures)while, on the other, seeking to discourage advocates of such readingsfrom accepting the terms of the debate as defined by the critics (thereby, ineffect, embracing the caricature and seeking to defend it). The paper seeks aform of equilibrium in reading Wittgenstein that has hitherto proven elusiveto commentary on his work. The difficulty has two sides which must bebalanced against each other, without permitting either to assume an undueshare of the burden. The first half of the difficulty is to do full justice to theprofound discontinuity in Wittgenstein’s thinking without neglecting (asthose who are called “standard readers” do) the extent to which it is foldedwithin a fundamental continuity in his philosophy. The second half of thedifficulty is to do full justice to the profound continuity in his thinkingwithout minimizing (as those who are called “zealous mono-Wittgensteinians”do) the extent to which it is folded within a fundamental discontinuityin his philosophy. The aim of this paper will be twofold: (1) to argue that afull acknowledgement of the moment of continuity requires a reasonablyheterodox degree of mono-Wittgensteinianism, and (2) that an equally fullacknowledgement of the complementary moment of discontinuity requiresthat the degree of this heterodoxy remain reasonably mild.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129317406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trying to keep philosophy honest","authors":"L. Hertzberg","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.82","url":null,"abstract":"For Wittgenstein the struggle to maintain one’s honesty, rather than formulating certain complex ideas, was central to the difficulty of philosophy.Today many philosophers in the analytic tradition are eager to leave the influence of Wittgenstein behind. In this essay, an attempt is made to conveyan idea of the loss to philosophy that would involve. Wittgenstein’s attitudeto the problems of philosophy is captured in PI § 116: “What we do is tobring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use”; PI § 593:“A main cause of philosophical disease – a one-sided diet: one nourishesone’s thinking with only one kind of example”; and OC § 549: “Pretensionsare a mortgage which burdens a philosopher’s capacity to think”.These remarks suggest that the way out of philosophical bewilderment is to relinquish the ambition to formulate certain ideas that will provide a solutionto it. Rather, we should quicken our sense of the way words are used bypeople who say things because they have something to say. We should letourselves be taught by the examples rather than use examples as illustrationsof preconceived solutions. In doing so we must relinquish our control of theprocess of investigation. This is perhaps the hardest thing in philosophy.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132679805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drei Pioniere der philosophisch-linguistischen Analyse von Zeit und Tempus: Mauthner, Jespersen, Reichenbach","authors":"Elisabeth Leinfellner","doi":"10.1515/9783110333213.337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110333213.337","url":null,"abstract":"Die historische Entwicklung von den zwanziger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts an fuhrte dazu, dass das Werk Mauthners erst wieder ab den siebziger Jahren diskutiert wurde. Die Diskussion teilt sich in zwei Strange: die Wieder-Entdeckung des fin de siecle und die Erkenntnis, dass Mauthner der erste Analytische Philosoph avant la lettre gewesen ist. Anders als in der klassischen Analytischen Philosophie sind alle seine Analysen erkenntnistheoretisch oder, modern ausgedruckt, kognitiv orientiert. In dem Vortrag werden grundlegende Gedanken zum Problem der Zeit und vor allem der Tempora aus Mauthners Werk in einem modernen Rahmen dargestellt. Seine Analysen sind fur die Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft relevant. Mauthners Analyse von Zeit und Tempus ist eng an seine Philosophie, insbesondere die \"drei Bilder der Welt\" und die These von der metaphorischen Abbildung geknupft. Wichtige Probleme in diesem Zusammenhang: Die morphologische Charakterisierung von \"Zeit\" als Substantiv ist ein Unding. - Der vermeintliche, und nur im Sprachsystem verankerte Parallelismus von Raum und Zeit - Die Unterscheidung zwischen subjektiver oder erlebter Zeit, objektiver oder abstrakter Zeit und vorgestellter, vom Gedachtnis gespeister Zeit - Die verschiedenen Arten des \"Jetzt\", inbesondere das grammatische \"Jetzt\" - Das System der Tempora nach Mauthner im Vergleich mit Jespersen und Reichenbach - Die struk turelle Zerlegung der Verb-Bedeutung an Hand des VerbAspekts - Die Parameter der Tempora in Satz und Text.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129739937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wittgenstein in digital form: Perspectives for the future","authors":"Cameron Mcewen","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.418","url":null,"abstract":"A series of important digital resources for Wittgenstein research haveappeared over the last 10 years. A brief history of these developments isgiven and a look taken at new resources which are likely to follow. A guessat the consequences of these developments for Wittgenstein research is made. Since these digital resources for Wittgenstein scholarship are uniquein the humanities, research in this area may well foreshadow possibilities inthe humanities generally. The hope is expressed that this may decrease theunfortunate isolation of the humanities from the wider society around themwith beneficial results for both sides.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127428811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peter Winch on the Tractatus and the unity of Wittgenstein’s philosophy","authors":"Cora Diamond","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.141","url":null,"abstract":"Peter Winch rejected the widespread view that Wittgenstein put forwardtwo entirely different philosophies in his early and later work. He took the“two-Wittgenstein” view to be associated with serious misunderstandings ofboth the Tractatus and Wittgenstein’s later thought. In this paper, Winch’sreading of the Tractatus and his criticisms of Norman Malcolm’s interpretationare examined. The paper tries to show that Winch was right in rejecting“mentalist” readings of the Tractatus, but that there are also problemswith Winch’s own reading.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124580896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wittgenstein’s early philosophy of language and the idea of ‘the single great problem’","authors":"M. Mcginn","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.107","url":null,"abstract":"In the Notebooks, Wittgenstein expresses the conviction that the problemsthat preoccupy him – ‘the problems of negation, of disjunction, of true and false’ – are reflections of ‘the one great problem’. He identifies this ‘singlegreat problem’ as one of ‘explaining the nature of the proposition’. Hebelieves that in coming to see the nature of the proposition clearly he will, atthe very same time, come to see the nature of the logical constants, thenature of truth and falsity and the status of the propositions of logic clearly.The question the author is concerned with in this paper is how Wittgensteinarrives at the idea of a single great problem, and how this idea sets theagenda for his investigation of the nature of a proposition in the Tractatus.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125172255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking avowals seriously: The soul a public affair","authors":"E. Savigny","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.230","url":null,"abstract":"First, the author gives a simplified outline of what he takes to be Wittgenstein’sidea that use determines meaning, and he does it in such a mannerthat we can put it to use in an interesting way. Then, he shows how theview of first person psychological utterances as expressions of people’s sensations,feelings, moods, impressions and so on fits in with this sketch of the‘use theory of meaning’; the result will be that the commonly acceptedunderstanding of such an utterance determines what the speaker’s mentalstate is like. In the section “Nonverbal expressions of mental states”, thisconclusion is generalized to mental states that are expressed in nonverbalbehavior; the result will be that commonly accepted reactions to nonverbalexpressive behavior determine what the speaker’s mental state is like in thesame way as is the case with verbal expressive behavior. Thus, rather thanarguing this anti-individualistic interpretation of Wittgenstein directly from the text, the author tries to pin him down to it by embedding his view onavowals in his use picture of meaning.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116926375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A brief history of Wittgenstein editing","authors":"A. Kenny","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.382","url":null,"abstract":"The article reflects on the history of the publication of Wittgenstein’sNachlass in the half-century after his death. It does not aim to be a completenarrative, but is based on the author’s personal experience of the process, asa translator and as a Trustee of Wittgenstein’s literary estate. It describes thecomplicated legal structures that have governed copyright in the Nachlass,and discusses the abortive Tubingen project and the eventual Wiener Ausgabeof certain texts. Finally it raises the question whether, now that the successful Bergen-Oxford electronic edition is available, there is any merit in aimingto produce a complete hard-copy Gesamtausgabe.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114878415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}