Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths
IF WITI'GENSTEIN COULD TALK, COULD WE UNDERSTAND HIM? Perusing the secondary literature on Wittgenstein, I have frequently experienced a perfect Brechtean Entfremdungseffekt. This is interesting, I have felt like saying when reading books and papers on Wi
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JAAKKO HINTIKKA SELECTED PAPERS VOLUME 1
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume
JAAKKO HINTIKKA Boston University
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-0-7923-4280-9 ISBN 978-1-4020-4109-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-4109-9
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
vii
ORIGIN OF THE ESSAYS
xiii
1
1.
"An Impatient Man and His Papers"
2.
"An Anatomy of Wittgenstein's Picture Theory"
21
3.
"The Idea of Phenomenology in Wittgenstein and Husserl"
55
4.
"Die Wende der Philosophie: Wittgenstein's New Logic of 1928''
79
5.
(with Merrill B. Hintikka) "Wittgenstein's annus mirabilis: 1929''
107
6.
"Ludwig's Apple Tree: On the Philosophical Relations between Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle"
125
7.
"The Original Sinn ofWittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics"
145
8.
(with Merrill B. Hintikka) "Ludwig Looks at the Necker Cube: The Problem of'Seeing As' as a Clue to Wittgenstein's Philosophy''
179
9.
"Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Immediate Experience"
191
10. "Wittgenstein and the Problem of Phenomenology''
209
11. "Wittgenstein on Being and Time"
241
12. "Language-Games"
275
13. (with Merrill B. Hintikka) "Wittgenstein: Some Perspectives on the Development of His Thought"
297
14. "Rules, Games and Experiences: Wittgenstein's Discussion of Rule-Following in the Light of His Development''
315
15. (with Merrill B. Hintikka) "Different Language-Games in Wittgenstein"
335
16. (with Merrill B. Hintikka) "Wittgenstein and 'the Universal Language' of Painting''
345
INTRODUCTION IF WITI'GENSTEIN COULD TALK, COULD WE UNDERSTAND HIM?
Perusing the secondary literature on Wittgenstein, I have frequently experienced a perfect Brechtean Entfremdungseffekt. This is interesting, I have felt like saying when reading books and papers on Wittgenstein, but who is the writer talking about? Certainly not Ludwig Wittgenstein the actual person who wrote his books and notebooks and whom I happened to meet. Why is there this strange gap between the ideas of the actual philosopher and the musings of his interpreters? Wittgenstein is talking to us through the posthumous publication of his writings. Why don't philosophers understand what he is saying? A partial reason is outlined in the first essay of this volume. Wittgenstein was far too impatient to explain in his books and book drafts what his problems were, what it was that he was
