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Wittgenstein, The Structuring of the Ego, and Autopoiesis
We see that the egoic life basically does not respect the autopoietic nature of the soul; it tends to make the open, living system that is the soul in a closed and isolated one, more like a machine. The difference … Continue reading
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Marx and Wittgenstein: Knowledge, Morality and Politics
What, the reader of this review may well wonder, is the point of a collection of essays connecting Marx and Wittgenstein? After all, “it is possible to take almost any two thinkers of genuine insight and sophistication and to find … Continue reading
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Google Translate is a manifestation of Wittgenstein’s theory of language
More than 60 years after philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s theories on language were published, the artificial intelligence behind Google Translate has provided a practical example of his hypotheses. Patrick Hebron, who works on machine learning in design at Adobe and studied … Continue reading
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Wittgenstein and Naturalism
This collection fills a lacuna, as the first volume focusing on the relationship between Wittgenstein and naturalism. It addresses important topics in current philosophical debates and is philosophical rather than exegetical in focus. The essays cover a wide variety of … Continue reading
Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the ‘Tractatus’ and Modernism
Late in his illuminating and useful examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Benjamin Ware quotes Wittgenstein’s assessment of the Viennese house the philosopher designed and built for his sister in 1940, by many lights a modernist masterpiece that Wittgenstein himself … Continue reading
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Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
José L. Zalabardo’s book provides a rich and stimulating interpretation of Wittgenstein’s central doctrines in the Tractatus about the nature of representation and the structure of reality. As is well known, the Tractatus raises peculiar difficulties for an attempt to … Continue reading
The contemporary relevance of Wittgenstein: Reflections and directions
… we discuss the development of Wittgenstein’s thought, distinguish what we take to be well-travelled versus less well-travelled aspects of his philosophy of psychological phenomena and summarize the diverse contributions to this collection. In order to do so, we briefly … Continue reading
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Wittgenstein and not-just-in-the-head Cognition
Wittgenstein’s later writings criticize the idea that the mind is an intrinsically representational device. More or less clearly apprehending certain limitations of identifying all aspects of cognition with ‘internal representation’, certain theorists in a variety of disciplines have mostly independently … Continue reading
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Constructing Resourceful or Mutually Enabling Communities – Putting a New (Dialogical) Practice into Our Practices
The whole idea of being a “participant,” of being an involved actor as distinct from being an “external observer” standing over against or apart from what one is learning about or researching into, is crucial in everything that follows below. … Continue reading
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Meaning is use: Wittgenstein on the limits of language
Wittgenstein’s shift in thinking, between the Tractatus and the Investigations, maps the general shift in 20th-century philosophy from logical positivism to behaviorism and pragmatism. It is a shift from seeing language as a fixed structure imposed upon the world to … Continue reading
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