The 100th anniversary of the first publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is celebrated by a collection of original papers by well-known experts on various aspects of one of the greatest works of philosophy in the twentieth century.
Martin Stokhof is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Jin Yuelin Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.Hao Tang is Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He studied history and philosophy of science (MA) and philosophy (PhD) at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
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1 Introduction.- 2 Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and the epistemology of logic.- 3 Resolution Re-examined.- 4 Ethics in the Tractatus. A Condition of the Possibility of Meaning?.- 5 On the transcendental ethics of the Tractatus.- 6 Metaphysics and Magic: Echoes of the Tractatus in Wittgenstein’s ‘Remarks on Frazer’.- 7 The Tractatus and the Carnapian Conception of Syntax.- 8 The only strictly correct method of philosophy: logical analysis and anti-metaphysical dialectic.- 9 Wittgenstein’s Tractatus in Context.- 10 The Tractatus and Modernism: Dialectics, Apocalypse and Ethics.
