Wittgenstein’s predecessors in philosophical logic, Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege, both sought to set mathematics on rock-solid foundations in formal logic. In the course of this project both ...

The purpose of this course is to understand some of the main ideas of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I have prepared a hypertext version of the Pears and McGuinness translation. It ...

I see the seminar as a collective effort. I propose to undertake the following tasks: Follow the evolution of Russell's views on the nature of judgment from 1903 to 1913 Trace the presence of these ...

Ray Monk – Ludwig Wittgenstein – The Duty of Genius ... When he sent the manuscript of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, neither of these considerable ...

My principal area of research is the history of early analytic philosophy. In particular, I am concerned to understand connections between Frege and the Tractarian Wittgenstein on, broadly, the nature ...

Dr. Lavers received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 2004. His teaching and research interests focus on issues at the intersection of history of analytic philosophy (including Frege ...

My principal area of research is the history of early analytic philosophy. In particular, I am concerned to understand connections between Frege and the Tractarian Wittgenstein on, broadly, the nature ...