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Published just over a century ago, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length work to have been published during his lifetime and it continues to generate interest and scholarly debate. It is structured as a series of propositions on metaphysics, language, the nature of philosophy, and the distinction between what can be said and what can be shown. This volume brings together eleven new essays on the Tractatus covering a wide variety of topics, from the central Tractarian doctrines concerning representation, the structure of the world and the nature of logic, to less prominent issues including ethics, natural science, mathematics and the self. Individual essays advance specific exegetical debates in important ways, and taken as a whole they offer an excellent showcase of contemporary ideas on how to read the Tractatus and its relevance to contemporary thought.

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Author:   José L. Zalabardo (University College London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781316512548

ISBN 10:   1316512541
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   14 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction José L. Zalabardo; 1. Wittgenstein's impatient reply to Russell Cora Diamond; 2. Modality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Juliet Floyd and Sanford Shieh; 3. Clarification and analysis in the Tractatus Sébastien Gandon; 4. The fish tale: the unity of language and the world in light of TLP 4.014 Hanne Appelqvist; 5. That which 'is true' must already contain the verb: Wittgenstein's rejection of Frege's separation of judgment from content Colin Johnston; 6. Solipsism and the self Michael Potter; 7. The Tractatus and the first person Maria van der Schaar; 8. Arithmetic in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Mathieu Marion and Mitsuhiro Okada; 9. 'Normal connections' and the law of causality Joshua Eisenthal; 10. The ethical dimension of the Tractatus Ilse Somavilla; 11. 'Obviously wrong': the Tractatus on will and world Duncan Richter; References; Index.

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José L. Zalabardo is Professor of Philosophy at University College London. He is the author of Introduction to the Theory of Logic (2000), Scepticism and Reliable Belief (2012), Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus (2015) and Pragmatist Semantics (2023).

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