Waismann and Waismann’s Wittgenstein
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Mauro Luiz Engelmann
Abstract
Friedrich Waismann’s views sometimes hide Wittgenstein’s ideas and methods and sometimes they appear mixed with them. In light of the recent literature and guided by a contrasting overview of Waismann’s and Wittgenstein’s published and unpublished works, I argue that underlying Waismann’s variations on themes by Wittgenstein was the logical empiricist aspiration to unify various kinds of knowledge and explain their relative position within the web of science. Waismann’s unique variation of logical empiricism is meant to accommodate Wittgenstein’s critique of philosophy in an alternative account of the relative position of logic, mathematics, natural science, ethics, and religion. I intend to delineate some aspects of this ambitious project underlying Waismann’s writings.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Hinweis für Leser / Note for Readers
- Tractarian Nonsense and Literary Language
- The Middle Wittgenstein on Aesthetics
- The Question of Linguistic Idealism in the Tractatus
- Waismann and Waismann’s Wittgenstein
- Die Grenzen welcher Sprache?
- Wittgenstein on Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
- Wittgenstein über die Erkenntnis Anderer
- Shouldered In and Out of the Reality of Mortality
- On Deep Moral Disagreement Between Theists and Atheists
- Redrawing and publishing the graphics in Wittgenstein’s Nachlass
- Special Topic: Das erlösende Wort in dürftigen Zeiten – Wittgensteins Fortschritts-, Zivilisations- und Kulturkritik
- Einleitung
- Text und Kontext
- Wozu Philosophie und Kunst in Zeiten der Unkultur?
- „[I]ch sehe jedes Problem von einem religiösen Standpunkt.“
- Wittgensteins „erlösende Worte“
- Wittgenstein über die Bildung von Begriffen
- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
- David R. Cerbone: Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism
- Peter Eigner: Die Wittgensteins. Geschichte einer unglaublich reichen Familie
- Raimundo Henriques: Self-Understanding in the Tractatus and Wittgenstein’s Architecture: From Adolf Loos to the Resolute Reading
- Shunichi Takagi, Pascal F. Zambito (eds.): Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Hinweis für Leser / Note for Readers
- Tractarian Nonsense and Literary Language
- The Middle Wittgenstein on Aesthetics
- The Question of Linguistic Idealism in the Tractatus
- Waismann and Waismann’s Wittgenstein
- Die Grenzen welcher Sprache?
- Wittgenstein on Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
- Wittgenstein über die Erkenntnis Anderer
- Shouldered In and Out of the Reality of Mortality
- On Deep Moral Disagreement Between Theists and Atheists
- Redrawing and publishing the graphics in Wittgenstein’s Nachlass
- Special Topic: Das erlösende Wort in dürftigen Zeiten – Wittgensteins Fortschritts-, Zivilisations- und Kulturkritik
- Einleitung
- Text und Kontext
- Wozu Philosophie und Kunst in Zeiten der Unkultur?
- „[I]ch sehe jedes Problem von einem religiösen Standpunkt.“
- Wittgensteins „erlösende Worte“
- Wittgenstein über die Bildung von Begriffen
- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
- David R. Cerbone: Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism
- Peter Eigner: Die Wittgensteins. Geschichte einer unglaublich reichen Familie
- Raimundo Henriques: Self-Understanding in the Tractatus and Wittgenstein’s Architecture: From Adolf Loos to the Resolute Reading
- Shunichi Takagi, Pascal F. Zambito (eds.): Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
