Dean Jolley Kelly - Wittgenstein : Key Concepts

Key Concepts

Key Concepts

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Kelly Dean Jolley

Kelly Dean Jolley

Craig Fox

Lars Hertzberg

Craig Fox

Rupert Read

Roderick T. Long

Phil Hutchinson

Kelly Dean Jolley

Avrum Stroll

Avner Baz

Heather Gert

Rupert Read and Phil Hutchinson

Eric Loomis

Roderick T. Long and Kelly Dean Jolley

Arata Hamawaki

David H. Finkelstein

Avner Baz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, Medford, MA.

David H. Finkelstein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Craig Fox is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California University of Pennsylvania.

Heather Gert is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Arata Hamawaki is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, AL.

Lars Hertzberg is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at bo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.

Phil Hutchinson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Kelly Dean Jolley is Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, AL.

Roderick T. Long is Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, AL.

Eric Loomis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL.

Rupert Read is Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

Avrum Stroll is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

Kelly Dean Jolley

Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in 1889 to a wealthy and cultured Viennese family. He decided to study aeronautical engineering, and so went to Manchester University (England) in 1908. There, he became deeply interested in the philosophy of mathematics, and eventually in the works of Gottlob Frege. He met Frege, who advised him to go to Cambridge to study with Bertrand Russell. He did so in 1911. Wittgenstein studied in Cambridge from 1911 to 1913. When the First World War began, he joined the Austrian army, fought, and was taken captive in 1917. The war ended while he was interned. During the war years he drafted the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and after the war the book was published in German and translated into English.

Around 1920, believing that he had in the Tractatus solved the problems of philosophy, he tried a variety of jobs gardener, teacher and architect. Finally, in 1929, he found himself again entangled in philosophical problems and he returned to Cambridge to work as a philosopher. Wittgenstein was dissatisfied in various ways with the Tractatus; the problems he had treated in it he was again puzzling over. For several years in Cambridge he worked feverishly to find new and better ways of thinking through those problems. He conducted famous and darkling seminars in which he worked out many of the ideas that would compose the Philosophical Investigations. He worked on that book for roughly twenty years, drafting and redrafting the remarks in it, as well as organizing and reorganizing them. He prepared to publish the book in 1945, but then withdrew the manuscript. The book was published posthumously in 1953. During his final years, Wittgenstein continued working in new ways on the problems that had gripped him from early in his career. He travelled to the United States and to Ireland, but returned to Cambridge, where he died of cancer in 1951.