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This is a facsimile reproduction of an early version of Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus, discovered in 1965. The text is edited to indicate all relevant deviations from the final version. Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus, first published in 1921, has had a profound influen... More

The co-called Blue and Brown Books, originally dictated to his students in Cambridge in the thirties, and circulated, not without precaution and secrecy, now follow the Investigations and the Remarks on Mathematics, and with this the opening up process is completeFilled with hundreds of specific exa... More

The volume is full of thought-provoking insight which will prove a stimulus both to further study and to scholarly disagreement.... More

Published originally in 1921 this book is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. This discussion on philosophical thought can be summed up in this quote from the beginning of the book. "what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about ... More

This first volume of Wittgenstein's" Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology" was written between October 1948 and March 1949, when the philosopher had moved to Dublin and was having one of his most fruitful working periods. He then finished work which he had begun in 1946 and which in its ent... More

Published originally in 1921 this book is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. This discussion on philosophical thought can be summed up in this quote from the beginning of the book. "what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about ... More

Wittgenstein wrote the Philosophical Grammar during the years 1931 to 1934 - the period just before he began to dictate the Blue Book. Although it is close to the Investigations in some points, and to the Phiosophische Bemerkungen at others, the Philosophical Grammar is an independent work which cov... More

Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" presents his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning. When first published in 1953, it immediately entered the center of philosophical debate, and achieved a classic status it has retained ... More

In the last years of his life, from 1949 to 1951, Wittgenstein's writings focused upon knowledge and certainty (collected together in On Certainty), upon colour concepts (in Remarks on Colour) and upon the relation between the inner and outer, that is, between so-called mental states and bodily beha... More