After making important contributions to logic and the foundations of mathematics, the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) moved away from formalism to an investigation of the logic of informal language. Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is regarded as one of the leading analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. He is usually credited with instigating not one revolution in philosophical method but two. Until recently it was common to divide his work into two...

Engineer, architect, and one of the most influential analytic and linguistic philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was born in Vienna, Austria, on April 26 and died a few days after his sixty-second birthday in...

Among the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein made important contributions to the philosophy of logic, theory of meaning, and philosophical psychology and methodology. Wittgenstein was born into a wealthy Viennese family...

Wittgenstein, Ludwig [addendum 2] Although aesthetics was a subject of deep and lifelong importance to Ludwig Wittgenstein, he wrote very little directly on the topic. He did, however, write remarks on the visual arts, literature and poetry,...

Wittgenstein was born in Vienna and though originally trained as an engineer became a pupil of Bertrand Russell at Cambridge. He returned to Austria to serve in the First World War, and in 1921 published the German edition of the Tractatus...

For other people of this name, see Wittgenstein (disambiguation) Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ([luːtvɪç ˈjoːzɛf ˈjoːhan ˈvɪtgənʃtaɪn] in German) (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was a philosopher of Austrian origin who worked...

Ludwig Wittgenstein incorporated ethical considerations in his writing such as the 'Tractacus' but he circumscribed them within an easily definable sphere of meaning associated with language. This early 20th century philosopher believed that ethics did not need any philosophical underpinnings to justify its existence...

The recent renewed interest in Wittgenstein's architecture (the publication of Paul Wijdeveld's book Ludwig Wittgenstein, Architect, and the exhibition and symposium held in Cambridge last November) has prompted Academy Editions to bring out a new edition of this book, which was originally published...

You must be feeling pretty good about yourselves these days, ever since those Norwegian epidemiologists conferred the equivalent of intellectual primogeniture on all of you. And truth be told, we’d be feeling pretty good about ourselves too if the report had gone the other way...

Thiher is an American writer and educator. In the following essay, he suggests that Wittgenstein's intellectual development between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations represents the "transition from modernism to a postmodern style of thought. "

In the following essay, Schulte examines the relationship between the Tractatus and Wittgenstein's later works.

Rorty is a noted American philosopher. In the following essay, originally published in 1976, he provides an overview of Wittgenstein's influence on later philosophical movements.