Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939
From the Notes of R.G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, and Yorick
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Diamond, Cora (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
For several terms at Cambridge in 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured on the philosophical foundations of mathematics. A lecture class taught by Wittgenstein, however, hardly resembled a lecture.
He sat on a chair in the middle of the room, with some of
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For several terms at Cambridge in 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured on the philosophical foundations of mathematics. A lecture class taught by Wittgenstein, however, hardly resembled a lecture.
He sat on a chair in the middle of the room, with some of the class sitting in chairs, some on the floor. He never used notes. He paused frequently, sometimes for several minutes, while he puzzled out a problem. He often asked his listeners questions and reacted to their replies. Many meetings were largely conversation.
These lectures were attended by, among others, D. A. T. Gasking, J. N. Findlay, Stephen Toulmin, Alan Turing, G. H. von Wright, R. G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, and Yorick Smythies. Notes taken by these last four are the basis for the thirty-one lectures in this book.
The lectures covered such topics as the nature of mathematics, the distinctions between mathematical and everyday languages, the truth of mathematical propositions, consistency and contradiction in formal systems, the logicism of Frege and Russell, Platonism, identity, negation, and necessary truth. The mathematical examples used are nearly always elementary.
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Cora Diamond is professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
The Lectures, I-XXXI
Index
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ISBN: 0226904261
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226904269
Copyright: 1989
Dewey Decimal: 510/.1
Library of Congress: 89037788
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.8
