José L Zalabardo

Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

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Produktbeschreibung

Jos¿. Zalabardo presents a new account of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus on the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He explores Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation, the unity of facts and propositions, and the nature of everyday propositions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780198743941
• ISBN-10: 0198743947
• Artikelnr.: 47866156

Autorenporträt

José L. Zalabardo is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at University College London. He was born in Madrid, and educated at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the University of St. Andrews, and the University of Michigan, where he obtained a PhD in 1994. He was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 1994 to 2000, when he joined UCL. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and collective volumes He is also the author of Introduction to the Theory of Logic (Westview Press, 2000) and Scepticism and Reliable Belief (OUP, 2012), and the editor of Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy (OUP, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Russell's theories of judgment
2: Wittgenstein and forms
3: The vanishing subject
4: Propositions and facts
5: The limits of representation
6: Logic and analysis
Conclusion
APPENDIX I: Other readings of the nonsense objection
APPENDIX II: The empty-name reading of the substance passage