Reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Mauro Engelmann
This Element presents a concise and accessible view of the central arguments of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Starting from the difficulties found in historical and current debates, drawing on the background of Russell's philosophy, and grounded in the ladder structure expressed in the numbering system of the book, this Element presents the central arguments of the Tractatus in three lines of thought. The first concerns the role of the so-called 'ontology' and its relationship to the method of the Tractatus and its logical symbolism, which displays the formal essence of language and world. The second deals with the symbolic unity of language and its role in the 'ladder structure' and explains how and why the book is not self-defeating. The third elucidates Wittgenstein's claim to have solved in essentials all philosophical problems, whose very formulation, he says, rests on misunderstandings.
Origins of Contemporary Philosophy: Studies on Philosophy of Mathematics (Rationality, Intentionality and Semantics)
by Julia Franke -Reddig (Author), Evandro O. Brito (Author), Ernesto Maria Giusti (Author), Arthur Heller Britto (Author)
Identifying the birth of contemporary philosophy involves critically reviewing ideas that were widely disseminated at the beginning of analytic philosophy and phenomenology. In both cases, rigorous historiography has been replaced by "creation myths" that, although relevant to determining the identity that each of the currents attributes to itself, ignore a web of complex systematic and historical relationships. This is the scope of the book Origins of Contemporary Philosophy: Studies on the Philosophy of Mathematics, published here by "Apolodoro Virtual Edições" as a special issue of the series "Rationality, Intentionality and Semantics," which brings together a presentation of the research group "Origins of Contemporary Philosophy" (GPOFC/PUC-SP) by Prof. Dr. Evandro O. Brito (UNICENTRO) and three papers resulting from research carried out by the German researcher Prof. Dr. Julia Franke-Reddig (University of Geneva/University of Siegen) and the Brazilian researchers Prof. M.e. Ernesto Maria Giusti (UNICENTRO) and Prof. Dr. Arthur Heller Britto (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo).
