Wittgenstein′s Whewell′s Court Lectures – From the Notes by Yorick Smythies, Cambridge 1938–1941
Cambridge, 1938 – 1941, From the Notes by Yorick Smythies
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Wittgenstein s Whewell s Court Lectures contains previously unpublished notes from lectures given by Ludwig Wittgenstein between 1938 and 1941. The volume offers new insight into the development of Wittgenstein s thought and includes some of the finest examples of Wittgenstein s lectures in regard to both content and reliability.
Many notes in this text refer to lectures from which no other detailed notes survive, offering new contexts to Wittgenstein s examples and metaphors, and providing a more thorough and systematic treatment of many topics
Each set of notes is accompanied by an editorial introduction, a physical description and dating of the notes, and a summary of their relation to Wittgenstein s Nachlass
Offers new insight into the development of Wittgenstein s ideas, in particular his ideas about certainty and concept–formation
The lectures include more than 70 illustrations of blackboard drawings, which underline the importance of visual thought in Wittgenstein s approach to philosophy
Challenges the dating of some already published lecture notes, including the Lectures on Freedom of the Will and the Lectures on Religious Belief
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<p>Editorial Introduction xiv</p>
<p>List of Editorial Conventions xx</p>
<p>Abbreviations xxii</p>
<p>WHEWELL S COURT LECTURES, CAMBRIDGE 1938 1941 1</p>
<p>1 Lectures on Knowledge 6<br /> Easter Term 1938 </p>
<p>2 Lectures on Necessary Propositions and Other Topics 50<br /> Easter Term 1938 </p>
<p>Lectures on Gödel 50</p>
<p>Puzzle of Trinity College 57</p>
<p>Necessary Propositions 62</p>
<p>Continuation. (Notes taken by J.C.T.) 72</p>
<p> Absolutely Determinate 74</p>
<p>Continuous Band of Colours 76</p>
<p>Are There an Infinite Number of Shades of Colour? 77</p>
<p> All There : Logical Necessity 78</p>
<p>Achilles and the Tortoise 82</p>
<p>Infinitesimal Calculus and Free Will 83</p>
<p>3 Lectures on Similarity 88<br /> Michaelmas Term 1939 </p>
<p>4 Lectures on Description 137<br /> Lent Term 1940 </p>
<p>5 Wittgenstein s Reply to a Paper by Y. Smythies on Understanding 190<br /> Lent Term 1940 </p>
<p>6 Lectures on Belief 203<br /> Easter Term 1940 </p>
<p>7 Lectures on Volition 254<br /> Michaelmas Term 1940 </p>
<p>8 Lectures on Freedom of the Will 282<br /> Lent Term 1941 </p>
<p>Appendix 297</p>
<p>9 Y. Smythies 1940 Paper on Understanding 300</p>
<p>10 Preparatory Notes for Y. Smythies 1945 Paper on Meaning 308</p>
<p>11 The King of the Dark Chamber, by Rabindranath Tagore, translated from the English of Rabindranath Tagore into the English used 327<br /> L. Wittgenstein and Yorick Smythies</p>
<p>12 Comments Prompted by the Notes Taken From Wittgenstein s Lectures on Volition and on Freewill 336<br /> Y. Smythies</p>
<p>Bibliography 348</p>
<p>Index 000</p>