4 Results for : wittgenstein’s
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Wittgenstein’s Rule-Following Paradox , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2min
Author C. C. Roberts discusses the Wittgenstein’s rule-following paradox. Any given course of conduct complies with many different rules, and there is therefore no good reason to say of a given act that it is an act of following this as opposed to that rule. Logic and philosophy lovers find the solutions to the most baffling new and old paradoxes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. C. Roberts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135867/bk_acx0_135867_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Simply Wittgenstein , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 231min
Born in Vienna into an extremely wealthy and highly cultured family, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) grew up surrounded by art, music, and a disturbing amount of dysfunctional behavior. After studying mechanical engineering and developing an interest in aeronautics, he became obsessed with mathematics and logic, which led to his life's work exploring the relationship between language, philosophy, and reality. In Simply Wittgenstein, James Klagge presents a fascinating portrait of this brilliant and troubled man, while exploring his two extraordinary books - the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations - in which he gave concrete form to his singular and perplexing ideas. Drawing on 30 years of teaching about Wittgenstein at both the undergraduate and graduate level, Klagge provides a clear and accessible introduction to these seminal works, helping the reader understand the revolutionary nature of Wittgenstein’s insights and the reason they continue to resonate in our own time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joff Manning. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082069/bk_acx0_082069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Wittgenstein: Philosophy in an Hour , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min
Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Wittgenstein in just one hour. Ludwig Wittgenstein saw himself as ‘the last philosopher’. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished. A superb logician, Wittgenstein distrusted language and sought to solve the problems of philosophy by reducing them to the purest form of logic. Everything else - metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, finally even philosophy itself - was excluded. He famously stated, ‘of that which we cannot speak we must remain silent', thus eliminating all concepts which do not arise from experience or are amenable to logical thought. Wittgenstein: Philosophy in an Hour is an audiobook showcasing an expert account of Wittgenstein’s life and philosophical ideas - entertainingly written and above all easy to listen to. Also included are selections from his work, suggested further reading and chronologies that place Wittgenstein in the context of the broader scheme of philosophy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Keeble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001389/bk_hcuk_001389_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Great Insights of the Scientific Mind: The Place of Science in Liberal Education , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 30min
Bertrand Russell was a man of many parts: mathematician, philosopher, educator, popular writer, and political activist. It is surprising, and not a tad ironic (given his legal battles with higher education), that he eventually won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. He was a prolific writer, but his most concentrated work was done in his earlier years on mathematics in collaboration with Alfred North Whitehead. They produced a three-volume work entitled Principia Mathematica in 1910, 1912, and 1913 respectively. It was “an attempt to describe a set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic from which all mathematical truths could in principle be proven.” Despite the fact that 20 years later Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem proved that Russell and Whitehead’s goal couldn’t be achieved, Principia Mathematica remains a seminal work of groundbreaking proportions. Russell would later admit that his intense research and writing for the project exhausted him so completely that he could never really pursue serious work on mathematics again. Yet, despite this, Russell continued writing on a host of subjects, ranging from Einstein’s theory of relativity to Wittgenstein’s work on logic. The following is one of Russell’s more famous essays on the importance of science in education and why it should be more emphasized in school and not disdained. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Zenobia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141921/bk_acx0_141921_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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