100 Years of ›Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus‹ – 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death: Proceedings of the 44th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium

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100 Years of ›Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus‹ – 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death

Proceedings of the 44th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium

Edited by: Esther Heinrich-Ramharter , Alois Pichler and Friedrich Stadler

Languages: English, German

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 30 | Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society – New Series

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This volume covers the origin, interpretations, and reception of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and offers a critical assessment of the related research and contemporary historiography.

The authors deal with an evaluation of research on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, life, and work, as well as of the editions of his work published since his death. This includes upcoming editions with a special focus on the availability of Wittgenstein’s (digital) Nachlass.

Special attention is given to the reception of and references to the Tractatus in the middle and later Wittgenstein, as well as the reception by other philosophers. Moreover, open philosophical, ethical, and (unresolved) scientific questions are addressed with a critical investigation of current research. Furthermore, the complex, diverse, and mutual relation of Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle of Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Friedrich Waismann and others are addressed.

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Esther Heinrich-Ramharter and Friedrich Stadler, University of Vienna, Austria; Alois Pichler, University of Bergen, Norway.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Wittgenstein Publications Referred to by Abbreviation Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Editorial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: 100 Years After
Is There Aesthetics in the Tractatus? And If There Is, What Is It Doing There? Hanne Appelqvist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
‚Also‘ sprach Wittgenstein: Prepositional Logic and Modal Qualificational Logic in the Tractatus Michael Beaney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
“So Too it is Impossible for There to Be Propositions of Ethics”. A Novel Approach to Tractatus 6.42¹ Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
Mauthner, Wittgenstein, and the Kraus Circle Mauro L. Engelmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
Tautologies and Theorems: The Epistemology of Logic of the Tractatus Is Not Self-Undermining Daniele Bruno Garancini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
Remarks on the Notion of ‘Expression’ in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus – Against the Background of Frege’s Early Essays Richard Heinrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
The Tractatus, Ethics, and the Unsayable Lars Hertzberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Against Auto-Da-Fé: A Sanguine Reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Herbert Hrachovec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
Wittgenstein’s Battlefield: The Kerensky Offensive Urszula Idziak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
Über den definitiven Text der Logisch-Philosophischen Abhandlung. Die Geschichte der bisherigen Textverbesserungen und einige neue Vorschläge Wolfgang Kienzler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Some Early Reactions to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus James C. Klagge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Wittgenstein on the Difficulty of Rejecting Metaphysics Oskari Kuusela Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
Unveiling the Complexity: Three Levels of Ethics in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Jakub Mácha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Wittgenstein in Green I: Ramsey Translates the Tractatus Cheryl Misak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
„Well then, what is logic about?“ – Anmerkungen zu einer als „überwunden“ geltenden Debatte über die „Gesetze des Denkens“ Gabriele M. Mras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
About a Possible Chronological Order of Wittgenstein’s Notes on Logic Martin Pilch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
An Outline of a Genetic Reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus David G. Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
“Found Objects” in Wittgenstein: Concepts of the Meter Susan Sterrett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
The Epistemology of the Tractatus Nuno Venturinha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
II Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle
“So one cannot, e. g., say ‘There are objects’ as one says ‘There are books’”. From Tractatus 4.1272 to Carnap via On Certainty 35– 37 Annalisa Coliva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Wittgenstein and Ramsey on Probability, Frequency, and Belief Maria Carla Galavotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
Open Texture in Science and Philosophy Dejan Makovec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Wittgenstein and Schlick: Two Approaches to Expression Jesús Padilla Gálvez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Our Method: Between Tractatus and Scientific World-Conception Radek Schuster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
A Bull in a China Shop? Neurath on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Thomas Uebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	375
III Wittgenstein after the Tractatus
The Unfortunate Pitfalls and Fruitful Temptations of Over-Interpretation Anat Biletzki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	399
Sraffa, Piccoli, and Wittgenstein’s 1931 Remarks on Gestures: A Reassessment Anna Boncompagni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417
Seeing the World Aright: Some Remarks on the Relations among Ethics, Aesthetics, and Philosophy in Wittgenstein’s Early Work up to 1930 Stefan Majetschak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	431
Peculiar Presences and Remarkable Absences: Wittgenstein in Postmodernist French Philosophy Anat Matar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	443
Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophical Feeling and “the Relative Position of Logic and Mechanics” John Preston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	463
Skepticism in the Tractatus and in On Certainty Genia Schönbaumsfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	477
Wittgensteins Ringen mit den Grenzen der Sprache Ilse Somavilla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	489
Wittgenstein on Grammar in the Blue Book Sarah Anna Uffelmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	507
„Mancher wird sagen, daß mein Reden über den Begriff des Wissens irrelevant sei“ (BPP II, 289). Wittgensteins Kritik an den philosophischen Idealen des Sublimen und der Sublimierung Anja Weiberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	519
IV 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death: Nachlass, Editions, and New Sources
“I should publish those old ideas and the new ones together” or: Tragedy and Irony in the History of Editing Wittgenstein as Exemplified in the Story of Peter Philipp’s Edition Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Philosophische Untersuchungen Christian Erbacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	539
Wittgensteins Gedankenbewegungen am Beispiel seines zweiten Buchprojekts, des Big Typescript: Die Zettelsammlung TS 212 – eine gewaltige Gedächtnisleistung – die zugleich Wittgensteins Schwierigkeiten zeigt, seine Gedanken in eine der damals möglichen Buchformen zu zwingen Michael Nedo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	549
The Wittgenstein–Richards Correspondence and a Three-Level Model of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass Alfred Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	567
Copyright in Wittgenstein’s Nachlass Jonathan Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	585
Von Wright as Wittgenstein’s Literary Executor Thomas Wallgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	595
Nonsensical Actions and the Justification of Rules Joseph Wang-Kathrein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	619
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	633

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15

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637

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13

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100 Years of ›Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus‹ – 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death

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