Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths

Abstract

Frequently, a genuine understanding of a thinker's ideas is possible only by following them further than he did himself. Wittgenstein's Viennese contemporary Karl Kraus spoke in a similar context of one-and-a-half truths in contradistinction to half-truths. In this volume of essays, Jaakko Kintikka examines in the spirit of Kraus's bon mot the two grand visions concerning the interrelations of language, self and the world that guided Wittgenstein's thought at the different stages of his philosophical development. 1. An Impatient Man and His Papers -- 2. An Anatomy of Wittgenstein's Picture Theory -- 3. The Idea of Phenomenology in Wittgenstein and Husserl -- 4. Die Wende der Philosophie: Wittgenstein's New Logic of 1928 -- 5. Wittgenstein's annus mirabilis: 1929 / Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka -- 6. Ludwig's Apple Tree: On the Philosophical Relations between Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle -- 7. The Original Sinn of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics -- 8. Ludwig Looks at the Necker Cube: The Problem of 'Seeing As' as a Clue to Wittgenstein's Philosophy / Jaako Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka -- 9. Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Immediate Experience -- 10. Wittgenstein and the Problem of Phenomenology -- 11. Wittgenstein on Being and Time -- 12. Language-Games -- 13. Wittgenstein: Some Perspectives on the Development of His Thought / Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka. 14. Rules, Games and Experiences: Wittgenstein's Discussion of Rule-Following in the Light of His Development -- 15. Different Language-Games in Wittgenstein / Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka -- 16. Wittgenstein and 'the Universal Language' of Painting / Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka.