Cambridge University professor Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is frequently described as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he only published one 82-page book ("Tractatus ...

OF ALL THE innovations that sprang from the trenches of the first world war—the zip, the tea bag, the tank—the “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” must be among the most elegant and humane. When the ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is a notoriously difficult philosopher to read, let alone understand. Help is here in the form of one of the volumes in W.W. Norton’s new “How to Read” series. They are short books ...

In 1943, two of the century’s most original thinkers—Ludwig Wittgenstein and Simone Weil—found themselves in bomb-battered London, looking for medical work to help the war effort. Though they never ...

The "Wittgenstein Monument" in Skjolden, Norway, erected near the philosopher's hut in 2018 by artists Sebastian Kjølaas, Marianne Bredesen, and Siri Hjorth. (via “§4.003 Most questions and ...

This post is in response to Normative Happiness By Joachim I. Krueger Ph.D. Joachim Krueger begins his recent post, “Normative Happiness,” with an epigraph from Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), ...

No person could reasonably claim to have the answer to the meaning of life. An even more daring claim is to know what meaning is at all. What is the meaning of these very words? Of language as a whole ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: The Austrian composer Arthur Schoenberg who was busy revolutionising music in early 20th ...

Specializing in philosophy of film, theory of action, philosophy of language, and the work of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wilson was especially known for his "Imagined Seeing Thesis," ...