Friday, October 9, 2015

The Tractatus online

The Daily Nous has a nice set of links to online "Tractatus trees" here. They include the following:


Then there's this, which is surely one of the nicest versions of the Tractatus available online. 

And of course my online version of the Tractatus is here, which I should perhaps convert into tree form some time.  

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Kafka and Wittgenstein II

Remember this? Rebecca Schuman's book is now available to order, and Paul Johnston has a short ebook on Kafka out too (which does not mention Wittgenstein, as far as I know, but you can't have everything).

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Wittgenstein and Heidegger in paperback

This looks good:

Table of Contents

1. General Introduction David Egan, Stephen Reynolds, & Aaron James Wendland 2. The Meaning of Being and the Possibility of Discourse: Heidegger and Wittgenstein Converse Stephen Mulhall 3. Wittgenstein and Heidegger and the "Face" of Life in Our Time Simon Glendinning 4. The Provocation to Look and See: Appropriation, Recollection, and Formal Indication Denis McManus 5. The Authenticity of the Ordinary David Egan 6. Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Question of Phenomenology Charles Guignon 7. Understanding the Being of the "We": Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Idealism Edward Minar 8. Heidegger and Wittgenstein on External World Skepticism Herman Philipse 9. What Science Leaves Unsaid Taylor Carman 10. Disintegrating Bugbears: Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Basic Laws of Thought Lee Braver 11. Understanding as a Finite Ability Joseph K. Schear 12. Human Activity as Indeterminate Social Event Theodore R. Schatzki 13. Heidegger’s Religious Picture Stephen Reynolds14. Words as Works of Art Aaron James Wendland 15. Wittgenstein and Heidegger as Romantic Modernists Anthony Rudd 16. Dwelling on Rough Ground: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Architecture David R. Cerbone

Wittgenstein and Forms of Life

The Nordic Wittgenstein Review, published by the NWS, has published its first ever Special Issue, edited by Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Piergiorgio Donatelli and Sandra Laugier in collaboration with the present editors of NWR.

It's open access, as always.
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/issue/view/NWR%20Special%20Issue%202015



Note from the Editors    

Forms of Life    
Peter Hacker     1-20
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3320/pdf

Wittgenstein on Forms of Life, Patterns of Life, and Ways of Living    
Daniele Moyal-Sharrock     21-42
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3362/pdf

Forms of Life, Forms of Reality    
Piergiorgio Donatelli     43-62
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3374/pdf

Voice as Form of Life and Life Form    
Sandra Laugier     63-82
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3364/pdf

Tractarian Form as the Precursor to Forms of Life    
Chon Tejedor     83-109
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3358/pdf

Mathematics and Forms of Life
Severin Schroeder     111-130
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3357/pdf

“If Some People Looked Like Elephants and Others Like Cats”: Wittgenstein on Understanding Others and Forms of Life
Constantine Sandis     131-153
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3372/pdf

Elucidating Forms of Life. The Evolution of a Philosophical Tool    
Anna Boncompagni     155-175
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3319/pdf

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Wittgenstein's lectures, 1932-33

Somehow these lecture notes had escaped my attention until recently, and here they are online. Just thought I'd share for anyone else in the same boat.

Some of Wittgenstein's ideas around this time (about the meaning of 'good') strike me as interestingly similar to, though not the same as, some of A. E. Taylor's. And it turns out that similarities between Taylor and Wittgenstein have been noted before (here and here, for instance). The whole blog (OMBHURBHUVA) looks worth reading.

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Nordic Wittgenstein Review

[Apologies for the bad links. They should all now be fixed.]

NORDIC WITTGENSTEIN REVIEW 4  (No. 1) 2015
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/issue/current

NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
Yrsa Neuman, Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen, Martin Gustafsson     5-6

INVITED PAPER
On the Origin of Symbolic Mathematics and Its Significance for Wittgenstein’s Thought
Sören Stenlund     7-92

ARTICLES
Aspect-Perception as a Philosophical Method
Reshef Agam-Segal     93-121

Perceptual Experience and Seeing-as
Daniel Enrique Kalpokas     123-144

Wittgenstein on Vaihinger and Frazer
Carlos Alves Pereira     145-165

Does Wittgenstein have a Method? The Challenges of Conant and Schulte
Sebastian Wyss     167-193

FROM THE ARCHIVES
The First Nine Months of Editing Wittgenstein - Letters from G.E.M. Anscombe and Rush Rhees to G.H. von Wright
Christian Eric Erbacher, Sophia Victoria Krebs     195-231

BOOK REVIEWS
Wittgenstein and Logic Today: The Logical Must by Penelope Maddy
Oskari Kuusela     233-236

Beyond the Inner-Outer Model: Subjectivity after Wittgenstein by Chantal Bax
Olli Lagerspetz     237-240

The Nachlass Self-contained: The Textual Genesis of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations by Nuno Venturinha
Marcos Silva     241-245

Imagination and Calculus: Wittgenstein’s Later Theory of Meaning by Hans Julius Schneider
Martijn Wallage     246-248

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Publication: Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Vol 5, No 1  (2016)
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*Please do circulate*

An interview with Stephen Mulhall

Here.