
Philosophical Papers
Herausgegeben von McGuinness, B.F.
Friedrich Waismann(Author)
B.F. McGuinness(Editor)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 31. January 1977
Book
Hardback
XXII, 191 pages
978-90-277-0712-3 (ISBN)
Description
Friedrich Waismann was born in Vienna in 1896 and lived there until the time of the Anschluss in 1938. From then until his death in 1959 he lived in England; this, apart from a brief period at Cambridge early on, was almost wholly at Oxford, \,Vhere he held the posts, first, or reader in the philosophy of mathematics and then of reader in the philosophy of science. He was of Jewish descent -his father being Russian, his mother German. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna and attended the lec- tures of Hahn. Beginning his career as a teacher of mathematics he soon be- came an unofficial assistant to Moritz Schlick. It was Schlick's concern to see that the new philosophical ideas developed by Wittgenstein from the time of his return to philosophy in the later 1920s were made public that de- termined the subsequent shape of Waismann's activities. Until the out- break of the war in 1939 his main task was the preparation of a book in which Wittgenstein's thought was to be systematically expounded. Be- tween 1927 and 1935 this project was carried on in close personal conjunc- tion with Wittgenstein. A first version of the planned book, Logik. Sprache.
Philosophie seems to have been completed by 1931. A very differ- ent version came to England with Waismann in 1938. It finally appeared, in an English translation, as Principles of Linguistic Philosophy.
Philosophie seems to have been completed by 1931. A very differ- ent version came to England with Waismann in 1938. It finally appeared, in an English translation, as Principles of Linguistic Philosophy.
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1977 edition
Language
English
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Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
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Professional and scholarly
Research
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XXII, 191 p.
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Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-0712-3 (9789027707123)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-1144-0
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Content
I. The Nature of the Axiom of Reducibility (1928).- II. A Logical Analysis of the Concept of Probability (1930).- III. The Concept of Identity (1936).- IV. Moritz Schlick's Significance for Philosophy (1936).- V. Hypotheses (before 1936?).- VI. Is Logic a Deductive Theory? (1938).- VII. The Relevance of Psychology to Logic (1938).- VIII. What is Logical Analysis? (1939).- IX. Fiction (1950).- X. A Note on Existence (1952).- XI. A Remark on Experience (I950's).- XII. The Linguistic Technique (after 1953).- XIII. Belief and Knowledge (1950's).- XIV. Two Accounts of Knowing (1950's).- Bibliography of Works by Friedrich Waismann.- Index of Names.