Book chapter
The Methods of the Tractatus: Beyond Positivism and Metaphysics?
Logical Empiricism, p.125
University of Pittsburgh Press
07/20/2003
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvt6rjh9.12
Abstract
Despite the legendary difficulty of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, it has attracted an extraordinary variety of interpretations in the eighty years since its publication. Among the leading alternatives are readings that make epistemology, ontology, logic, semantics, ethics, religion, or mysticism central; construals of the text as realist, idealist, solipsist, phenomenalist, physicalist, or neutral monist; and those that identify Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Frege, Russell, or Carnap as providing the correct approach with which to understand the book. Moreover, the list barely begins to indicate the variety of conflicting approaches that have been seriously canvassed. Far from deterring interpreters, the text’s extreme brevity
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- Title: Subtitle
- The Methods of the Tractatus: Beyond Positivism and Metaphysics?
- Creators
- DAVID G. Stern
- Contributors
- Paolo Parrini (Editor)Wesley C. Salmon (Editor)Merrilee H. Salmon (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Logical Empiricism, p.125
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctvt6rjh9.12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/20/2003
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984398482002771
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