Interactive Wittgenstein Essays in Memory of Georg Henrik von Wright
The philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein continues to have a profound influence that transcends barriers between philosophical disciplines and reaches beyond philosophy itself. Less than one hundred years after their publication, his early masterp
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editors-in-Chief: VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Honorary Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. JAN WOLEN´SKI, Jagiellonian University, Krako´w, Poland
VOLUME 349 For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6607
Interactive Wittgenstein Essays in Memory of Georg Henrik von Wright
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Dr. Enzo De Pellegrin [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4020-9908-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9909-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9909-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
When Georg Henrik von Wright died in his native town of Helsinki on 16 June 2003, aged 87, he left behind a rich and varied legacy of scholarly achievements. Apart from the renown he had attained for his work in philosophical logic and as a quintessential Continental thinker on cultural topics, the polyglot Finn of Scottish descent had earned the esteem of philosophers and scholars around the globe for his wide-ranging efforts to make the philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein available to an interested public. As a friend of Wittgenstein’s, his successor as Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University and one of the original legatees of his literary estate, von Wright played a crucial part in compiling and organizing the vast body of Wittgenstein’s manuscripts and typescripts. This, in itself, was no minor feat, for what is known simply as “the Nachlass” among experts turned out to be a geographically scattered set of interrelated texts. In an effort to tame this abundance, von Wright devised a simple classificatory framework and created an annotated catalogue, both of which remain in use by specialists today, serving as indispensable guides to the corpus of Wittgenstein’s philosophical writings. Von Wright was also deeply involved in extracting from the Nachlass many of the books through which Wittgenstein’s philosophy has reached a broader philosophical audience. Among the volumes he edited and co-edited are Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Notebooks 1914–1916, Culture and Value, Zettel, On Certainty, Notes on Logic, and four volumes of remarks on the philos
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