Oskari Kuusela

Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy

Re-Examining the Roots and Development of Analytic Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Oskari Kuusela explores Wittgenstein's account of logic in the context of the history of analytic philosophy. He presents Wittgenstein as developing the logical-philosophical approaches of his contemporaries and credits him with resolving the long-standing dispute between the ideal language and ordinary language schools of analytic philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780198829751
• ISBN-10: 0198829752
• Artikelnr.: 53611817

Autorenporträt

Oskari Kuusela is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. The main foci of his work are philosophical methodology, the philosophy of logic and language, history of analytic philosophy, and ethics. He is the author of The Struggle against Dogmatism (Harvard 2008) and Key Terms in Ethics (Continuum 2010), co-editor of Wittgenstein and His Interpreters (Blackwell-Wiley 2007) and The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein (Oxford 2011), and has two forthcoming books: Wittgenstein and Phenomenology (Routledge) and Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Frege's and Russell's new logic: the promise of philosophical
progress
* 2: The Tractatus' philosophy of logic and the logocentric predicament
* 3: The Tractatus' philosophy of logic and Carnap
* 4: Ideality and reality: beyond apriorism, empiricism and
conventionalism
* 5: The method of language-games as a method of logic
* 6: Non-empiricist naturalism: the uses of natural history in logic
* 7: Resolving the dispute between ideal and ordinary language
approaches
* Epilogue