Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus

Michael Morris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex.

'This is an excellent book: it provides the clear and direct exposition that students need, at the same time as conveying a sense of the depth, the importance, and the interest of Wittgenstein's text. Morris sheds new light on some of the most important issues for interpreting the Tractatus, and his treatment of them is clearly informed by a deep fascination with Wittgenstein's thought that will carry first-time students on to further work as well as appealing to more experienced readers.' - Peter Sullivan, University of Stirling, UK‘... I think this is one of the best books about the Tractatus that I have read. ...It is suffused with a sort of sceptical enthusiasm for the Tractatus which seems to me to be just the right attitude to encourage in students coming to this frustratingly fascinating work for the first time. I recommend it.’ – Michael Potter, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• Introduction  1.  The nature of the world  2. The legacy of Frege and Russell  3. The general theory of representation  4. Sentences as models  5. Logic and compound sentences  6. Solipsism, idealism and realism  7. Metaphysics, ethics and the limits of philosophy  Appendix: The substance argument  Bibliography