Wittgenstein, Ludwig
WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG (1889–1951), one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Born of a wealthy family in Vienna, Wittgenstein did most of his philos...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951)
Among the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein made important contributions to the philosophy of logic, theory of meaning, and philosoph...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Engineer, architect, and one of the most influential analytic and linguistic philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was born in Vienna, Aust...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig [addendum 2]
Although aesthetics was a subject of deep and lifelong importance to Ludwig Wittgenstein, he wrote very little directly on the topic. He did, however, write remarks o...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann(1889–1951)
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, the Austrian-British philosopher, was born in Vienna, the youngest of eight children. Ludwig's paternal gra...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann [addendum 1]
Of Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein's philosophical writings available in print, by far the greater part was published after the 1967 Encyclopedia...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein is regarded as one of the leading analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. He is usually credited with instigating not one revolution in philosophical method but two. Until ...
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After making important contributions to logic and the foundations of mathematics, the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) moved away from formalism to an investigation of the logic of...
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