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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Wittgenstein"”.
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Translation after Wittgenstein
… how a reading of the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein can be of use to the reflective practitioner of literary translation. Wittgenstein, whilst a key figure in twentieth-century philosophy, remains peripheral to the field of translation studies and I argue that his later work, because it …
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Wittgenstein, éthique et esthétique
Wittgenstein a peu ecrit sur l'ethique et sur l'esthetique. Des le Tracraus, toutefois, les contours d'une ethique et d'une esthetique semblent tout traces. C'est ce que, a la lumiere de quelques ecrits posterieurs de Wittgenstein, cette etude essaye de montrer; elle suggere, de plus, que l'ethique …
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Wittgenstein and the problem of phenomenology
Wittgenstein’s mention of the term “phenomenology” in his writings from the middle period has long been regarded as puzzling by interpreters. It is striking to see him concerned with this philosophical approach, generally regarded as being foreign to the tradition of Russell and Frege, in which …
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Wittgenstein on grammar and grammatical method
This thesis is an investigation of Ludwig Wittgenstein‘s later conception of grammar and philosophy as a grammatical investigation. I seek to clarify how one should understand the later Wittgenstein‘s statement that ―grammar describes the use of words in the language‖ (PG 60), as well as what …
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Wittgenstein and his students, 1912-1968
… Moral Sciences students’ elaboration of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s approach to doing philosophy. It serves foremost as a contribution to the history of British culture and ideas. From the 1922 publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the 1968 founding of the Wittgenstein …
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Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language
Tine Melzer: Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language The purpose of this study is to show transitions between verbal and visual meaning in ordinary language, based on philosophical concepts and conceptual artworks. It offers models for artistic research and collaboration in arts …
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Contexte, environnement, arrière-plan chez Heidegger et Wittgenstein
l’Umwelt heideggérienne ni le contexte wittgensteinien ne se présentent comme l’arrière-plan de référence de nos jugements de valeur.
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Les limites du contexte chez Wittgenstein et Austin
… mémoire était de distinguer le contextualisme de Wittgenstein et d'Austin, en soulignant que seul le dernier est conventionaliste.
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Reference and Grammar: Reasserting Wittgenstein's Picture
… a novel line of argument in support of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s view of philosophy of language. It consists in three parts. First, it explores a family of referential theories of meaning belonging to the tradition of Millian semantics – a family dubbed ‘Millian externalism.’ Second, it draws on …
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Situated Objectivity: Ethical Judgment, Critique and Justification After Wittgenstein
The documentary film Mr. Death raises questions about a man's agency in denying the Holocaust. Although Korsgaard's defense of ethics provides an invaluable corrective on any reduction of forms of life to unrelenting patterns of social power, her position fails to address power at all. On the other …
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Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein on existence and negative existentials
… Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), three of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. As to Frege and Russell, I challenge the common historical narrative according to which they developed and defended what is usually called the second-order theory of …
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Wittgenstein and Austin on ‘What is in Common’: A Neglected Perspective?
… neglected aspect in the writings of later Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin. I badge this the ‘unity problem’. Many interpreters tend to underestimate, or ignore, this important aspect, and to focus instead on what I will call the ‘compatibility problem’. The compatibility problem focuses on …
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Wittgenstein against ‘Positivist' Approaches to International Relations: Replacing the Anti‐Representationalist Objection
… of prominent scholars have attempted to apply Wittgenstein’s philosophy to the study of International Relations (IR). These applications have taken diverse forms and directions; nevertheless, many involve using Wittgenstein’s philosophy to criticise certain purportedly ‘scientific’ approaches …
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Resolute readings of later Wittgenstein and the challenge of avoiding hierarchies in philosophy
… addresses the question: How did later Wittgenstein aim to achieve his goal of putting forward a way of dissolving philosophical problems which centered on asking ourselves what we mean by our words – yet which did not entail any claims about the essence of language and meaning? This …
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