Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures

Volker A. Munz is Assistant Professor at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He is the editor of Language and World (with Klaus Puhl and Joseph Wang, 2010), Mind, Language and Action (with Daniele Moyal-Sharrock and Annalisa Coliva, 2015), the author of Satz und Sinn. Bemerkungen zur Sprachphilosophie Wittgensteins (2005), as well as numerous essays. Bernhard Ritter is University Assistant at the University of Klagenfurt. He has published articles on Kant and Wittgenstein and is the author of the forthcoming Kant and Post-Tractarian Wittgenstein: Transcendentalism, Idealism, Illusion.

'The book contains twelve chapters. The editors introduce us thoroughly to each and provide detailed information about the sources they have used. They also enrich the text with comments about similar or complementary passages in the Nachlass. . . . There is no doubt a great deal to be learnt from this book by anyone with an interest in Wittgenstein's philosophy.' -- Alois Pichler, Grazer Philosophische Studien 95 (2018) 589-603“From time to time there is a treasure that emerges from the Wittgenstein chest. This collection of lectures meticulously edited by Volker Munz and Bernhard Ritter actually emerges from the chest of Wittgenstein’s pupil and friend Yorick Smythies.” - Nuno Venturinha, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, December 2019

• Preface ixEditorial Introduction xivList of Editorial Conventions xxAbbreviations xxiiWhewell’s Court Lectures, Cambridge 1938–1941 11 Lectures on Knowledge 6⟨Easter Term 1938⟩2 Lectures on Necessary Propositions and Other Topics 50⟨Easter Term 1938⟩Lectures on Gödel 50Puzzle of Trinity College 57Necessary Propositions 62‘Absolutely Determinate’ 74Continuous Band of Colours 76Are There an Infinite Number of Shades of Colour? 77‘All There’: Logical Necessity 78Achilles and the Tortoise 82Infinitesimal Calculus and Free Will 833 Lectures on Similarity 88⟨Michaelmas Term 1939⟩4 Lectures on Description 137⟨Lent Term 1940⟩5 Wittgenstein’s Reply to a Paper by Y. Smythies on ‘Understanding’ 190⟨Lent Term 1940⟩6 Lectures on Belief 203⟨Easter Term 1940⟩7 Lectures on Volition 254⟨Michaelmas Term 1940⟩8 Lectures on Freedom of the Will 282⟨Lent Term 1941⟩Appendix 2979 Y. Smythies’ 1940 Paper on ‘Understanding’ 30010 Preparatory Notes for Y. Smythies’ 1945 Paper on ‘Meaning’ 30811 The King of the Dark Chamber, by Rabindranath Tagore, translated from the English of Rabindranath Tagore into the English used by L. Wittgenstein and Yorick Smythies, by L. Wittgenstein and Yorick Smythies 32712 Comments Prompted by the Notes Taken From Wittgenstein’s Lectures on Volition and on Freewill, by Y. Smythies 336Bibliography 348Index 351