About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, George Lakoff, Edmund Husserl, Gottlob Frege, Imre Lakatos, Haskell Curry, Hilary Putnam, Proclus, Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, Alain Badiou, Bertrand Russell's views on philosophy, Hajime Tanabe, Michael Dummett, Richard Dedekind, Stephan Korner, John Lane Bell, Jozef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Jean van Heijenoort, John Lucas, Paul Bernays, Gerrit Mannoury, Paul Benacerraf, Stewart Shapiro, Jaakko Hintikka, Hao Wang, Crispin Wright, Michael Resnik, Colin McLarty, Sofya Yanovskaya, James Franklin, David Corfield, Horace Romano Harre, Penelope Maddy, Paul Ernest, Donald A. Gillies, Bob Hale, Jody Azzouni, Solomon Feferman, Elliott Mendelson, Reuben Hersh, Charles Parsons, Peter Koellner, Hartry Field, Steve Awodey, Robert Blanche, Mark Steiner, Donald A. Martin, Geoffrey Hellman, Michael Detlefsen, Tim Bays, James Robert Brown, Stephen Yablo, Oystein Linnebo, Maximilien Winter, Luca Incurvati, Daniel Bonevac. Excerpt: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 - 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who held the professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947. He is known for having inspired two of the century's principal philosophical movements, logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy, though in his lifetime he published just one book review, one article, a children's dictionary, and the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). In 1999 his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953) was ranked as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy. Born into one of Austria-Hungary's wealthiest families in Vienna at the turn of the century, he gave away his inheritance, and was at one point forced to sell his furniture to cover expenses when working on the Tractatus. Three of his brothers committed...
