Wittgenstein Links
I have attempted to collect here a representative selection of materials on the web relating to Ludwig Wittgenstein. If you know of any other relevant things that you feel I should include, then please let me know.
Introductions
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Texts by Wittgenstein and info on them
Texts on Wittgenstein and info on them
- Scott Aiken & Michael Hodges: "Pragmatism and the Possibility of the Religious" (2001).
- Robert Angelo: "A Synopsis of Wittgenstein's Logic of Language" (1979). Quite long and interesting, with special reference to Wittgenstein's relationships with Paul Engelmann and M. O'C. Drury.
- Michael Bakaoukas: "Gorgias the Sophist on Not Being: A Wittgensteinian Interpretation" (2001).
- Axel Barceló: "Mathematics as Grammar: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics During the Middle Period" (2000).
- Paul Bernays: "Comments on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics" (1959).
- Evan William Cameron: "Filmmaking, Logic and the Historical Reconstruction of the World" (1994). On Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics and the theory of film-making.
- Kieran Cashell: "Attempt to Understand Wittgenstein's Picture Theory of the Proposition" (1998).
- Charles L. Creegan: Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard: Religion, Individuality and Philosophical Method (1989).
- Mats Dahllöf: "On the Foundations of Semantic Description: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of the 'Later' Wittgenstein and Its Consequences for Linguistics" (2001).
- Travis J. Denneson: "Wittgenstein on Seeing" (1999).
- Daniel Dennett: "Ludwig Wittgenstein" (1999). A Time magazine profile from its "100 people of the century" feature.
- Christoph Durt: "Wittgenstein's Lectures on Freedom of the Will" (2001).
- Terry Eagleton: "My Wittgenstein" (1994).
- Dic Edwards: "Wittgenstein and Morality: The Playwright's Purpose" (2001).
- Eduardo Fermandois: "Teoría, terapia, modo de ver: sobre la concepción wittgensteiniana de la filosofía" (1997).
- C. Flink: "(The) Natural Language and the Picture Theory of the Tractatus" (1999).
- Francisco Javier Gea Izquierdo: "Wittgenstein y el sentido de la existencia" (1999).
- Lutz Geldsetzer: "Wittgensteins Familienähnlichkeitsbegriffe" (1999).
- Nick Gier: "Synthetic Reason, Aesthetic Order and the Grammar of Virtue" (2000).
- Felix Gmür: "'Architektur ist eine Geste': Zu einer Bemerkung von Ludwig Wittgenstein" (2001).
- John G. Gunnell: "Wittgenstein and Political Theory" (2001).
- Akinori Hayashi: "Wittgenstein: Thought, Logic and the Method of Philosophy" (2000).
- John Hayes: "Wittgenstein's 'Pupil': The Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury" (1996). A biographical sketch of one of Wittgenstein's closest friends.
- Boris Hennig: "Wittgenstein und die Tradition" (1996).
- Iris Hermann: "Ludwig Wittgensteins Schmerzbegriff im Dialog mit Fernando Pessoa, Franz Kafka und Clarice Lispector" (1999).
- Steven M. Hoenisch: "A Wittgensteinian Approach to Discourse Analysis" (1998).
- Steven M. Hoenisch: "The Myth of Psychoanalysis: Wittgenstein Contra Freud" (no date).
- Daniel D. Hutto: "Was the Later Wittgenstein a Transcendental Idealist?" (1996).
- Allan Janik: "Wittgenstein, Hertz and Hermeneutics" (1999).
- Allan Janik: "From Logic to Animality, or, How Wittgenstein Used Otto Weininger" (2002).
- Thorsten Johansson: "Wittgenstein och konservatism" (1997). On J. C. Nyíri's reading of Wittgenstein as a conservative. (In Swedish.)
- Ian Jordan: "Wittgenstein on Colour" (1990). A badly-scanned BA thesis.
- Michael Kocsis: "From General to Particular: The Game Metaphor in Wittgenstein's Philosophy" (n.d.).
- Jukka Korpela: "Natural Numbers as Exponents of Operations: A Formalization of Wittgenstein's Definition" (2001).
- Josh Kortbein: "Necessity and Mathematical Truth" (2000).
- Boris Körkel: "Wittgenstein und das Denken" (1996).
- Melinda Kovács: "Play Nice: Towards a Wittgensteinian Politics" (2001).
- Matthias Kroß: "Philosophieren in Beispielen: Wittgensteins Umdenken des Allgemeinen" (2001).
- Peter B. Ladkin: "Logical Form as a Binary Relation" (1997).
- Matt Lee: "Changing Sights: Some Thoughts on the Showing of the Saying of the Showing/Saying Distinction in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" (1997).
- Justin Leiber: "On What Sort of Speech Act Wittgenstein's Investigations Is and Why It Matters" (1997).
- John Lippitt & Daniel D. Hutto: "Making Sense of Nonsense: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein" (1998). On James Conant's reading of the Tractatus.
- M. S. Lourenço: "Génese e Vocabulário da Filosofia da Cultura de Wittgenstein" (1999). (In Portuguese.)
- Brooke Lundquist: "Wittgenstein and Aesthetics: What is the Language of Art?" (1999).
- Michael Martin: "Wittgenstein's Lectures on Religious Belief" (1991).
- Henry McDonald: "The Narrative Act: Wittgenstein and Narratology" (1994).
- Tim McDonough: "Is the Tractatus a Joke?" (1999). Weirdly formatted hypertext, but with several good points.
- Andrew Monaco: "Ineffable Truths and Wittgenstein's Tractatus" (2000).
- John S. Moore: "Wittgenstein Notes" (1968-1999). A Nietzschean's fascinating take on Wittgenstein, extracted from thirty years of notebooks.
- John S. Moore: "Philosophical, Magical and Mystical Reflections" (1969).
- Aleksander Motturi: "Wittgenstein och
det tjugoförsta århundradet" (1999). (In Swedish.)
- Chantal Mouffe: "Wittgenstein, Political Theory and Democracy" (2000). (comment by Miguel Gamboa)
- Jaime Nubiola: "Scholarship on the Relations Between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles S. Peirce" (1996).
- Michael Nyhaga: "Wittgenstein på nittiotalet" (1998). (In Swedish.)
- Michael Pelczar: "Wittgensteinian Semantics" (2000).
- Michael Pelczar: "Names as Tokens and Names as Tools" (2001).
- Carlo Penco: "Wittgenstein in Relation to Our Times" (1996). On von Wright's reading of Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture.
- Marjorie Perloff: "Wittgenstein's Ladder: Introduction" (1996). The introduction to her book on Wittgenstein and poetics.
- Marjorie Perloff: "'But isn't the same at least the same?': Translatability in Wittgenstein, Duchamp and Jacques Roubaud" (2001).
- John Perry: "Davidson's Sentences and Wittgenstein's Builders" (1994).
- Michael Peters: "Deranging the Investigations: Cavell on the Figure of the Child" (1998).
- Michael Peters: "Writing the Self: Wittgenstein, Confession and Pedagogy" (1999).
- Michael Peters & Nicholas Burbules: "Tractarian Pedagogies: Sense and Nonsense" (1998).
- Michael Peters & James Marshall: "Terry Eagleton: Wittgenstein as Philosophical Modernist (and Postmodernist)" (1999).
- Michael Peters & James Marshall: "Nietzsche and Wittgenstein: Philosophers of the Future" (1999).
- Michael Peters & James Marshall: "Wittgenstein / Styles / Pedagogy" (1999).
- Michael Peters & James Marshall: "Philosophy as Pedagogy: Wittgenstein's Styles of Thinking" (1999).
- Christoph C. Pfisterer: "Regelfolgen und Notwendigkeit: Das Regelfolgeproblem in Wittgensteins Bemerkungen über die Grundlegung der Mathematik" (2001).
- Patrick J. J. Phillips: "'Primitive Societies': Imperialising Interpretations and The Spectre of Relativism" (1999).
- Bob Plant: "Pluralism, Justice and Human Vulnerability: Misappropriations of Wittgenstein" (2000).
- Moris Polanco: "Ludwig Wittgenstein y Hilary Putnam" (2001).
- John Powell: "How to Read (and How Not to Read) Wittgenstein: Notes for Students" (1999).
- John Powell (ed.): Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language (2000). A special issue of the journal Essays in Philosophy.
- Diane Proudfoot & B. Jack Copeland: "Turing, Wittgenstein and the Science of the Mind" (1994).
- Ruy J. G. B. de Quireoz: "Meaning, Function, Purpose, Usefulness, Consequences: Interconnected Concepts" (2001).
- Michael J. Quirk: "Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations" (2000).
- Adolf Rami: "Wittgenstein on a Problem of Sameness" (2001).
- Allan F. Randall: "Logic, Idealism and Materialism in Early and Late Wittgenstein" (1997).
- Reinhard Röhner: "Der Grammatikbegriff in den Philosophischen Untersuchungen Ludwig Wittgensteins" (2001).
- A. J. Rudd: "What It's Like and What's Really Wrong with Physicalism: A Wittgensteinean Perspective" (1997).
- Gilbert Ryle: "Ludwig Wittgenstein" (1951). Ryle's classic memorial talk as broadcast on the BBC.
- Alfred Schmidt: "Wittgensteins Briefe: Freunde, Feinde und die Sackgassen des Lebens" (2000). On Wittgenstein's letters to Rush Rhees. (English version)
- Richard H. Schmitt: "Wittgenstein's Tractatus: The Importance of a Clearly Arranged Representation" (1997).
- Pär Segerdahl: "Det som måste accepteras, det givna" (1998). (In Swedish.)
- Lois Shawver: "Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations" (no date).
- David Simpson: "'A Form of Life', and a Type of Naturalism" (1998).
- Anthony Craig Squires: "Memories of Truth, Habits of Following" (1995). A PhD thesis on Wittgenstein's and Quine's view that logical laws are revisable.
- David G. Stern: "From the Tractatus to the Investigations" (2002).
- James Still: "The Mental Discomfort of 'Why?'" (1998). On Wittgenstein's philosophy of religion.
- Gunnar Svensson: "Tankar om Wittgensteins filosofiska metod" (1997). (In Swedish.)
- Philip Swann: "Cognitive Science and Wittgenstein's Tractatus" (1991).
- Matt Talbert: "Explanation and Belief: The Wittgensteinians on Religious Skepticism" (2000).
- Matt Talbert: "Wittgensteinian Fideism and Religious Skepticism" (n.d.).
- Ikuo Taniguchi: "Wittgenstein's Realistic Inclination in the Tractatus" (1996).
- Paolo Teobaldelli: "Signification and Knowledge: A Semiotical Philosophical Analysis of Wittgenstein's Work" (1998).
- Philip H. Thonemann: "The Private Language Argument" (1998).
- Stephen Thornton: "Wittgenstein sans the Private Language Argument" (1996).
- Richard Toft: "Wittgenstein, Tsongkhapa and Interpretation" (2000).
- Evelyn Toynton: "The Wittgenstein Controversy" (1997). On the editing of his papers.
- Arto Tukiainen: "On Wittgenstein's Claim That Ethical Value Judgements Are Nonsense" (2001).
- John Upper: "Wittgenstein and Peirce" (1992). Three sections of an MA thesis.
- Patrick Vanhoucke: "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Prophet des Logik-Positivismus oder Philosoph der negativen Theologie?" (1998).
- Alex Voorhoeve: "Wittgenstein on Understanding Ritual" (2001).
- Wilhelm Vossenkuhl: "Ludwig Wittgenstein" (1995).
- Thomas Wallgren: "Throwing Away the Ladder, and Keeping It Too" (2001).
- Ginny Watkins: "Wittgenstein, Interpretation and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis" (1997).
- Ari Weinstein: "Paradigm Shift in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" (1999).
- John N. Williams: "Wittgensteinian Accounts of Moorean Absurdity" (1998).
- Crispin Wright: "Wittgensteinian Certainties" (2001).
- Rüdiger Zill: "Der Vertrakt des Zeichners: Wittgensteins Denken im Kontext der Metapherntheorie" (2001).
- Jan Zwicky: "The Geology of Norway" (1999).
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