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Wittgensteinian (adj.) : looking at the world from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein's philosophy /

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"Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round th...

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Other Authors: Wuppuluri, Shyam (Editor), Costa, Newton C. A. da (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer nature Switzland AG, [2020]
Series:Frontiers collection.
Subjects:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, > 1889-1951.
Science > Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Philosophy: Showings: a double sestina / Christopher Norris
  • Wittgenstein's ways / Nikolay Milkov
  • Philosophy as education in thinking: why getting the reader to think matters to Wittgenstein / Oskari Kuusela
  • Wittgenstein's grammar: through thick and thin / Danièle Moyal-Sharrock
  • Playing language games / Beth Savickey
  • Wittgenstein's 'Grammatical Naturalism' / Jonathan Beale
  • Wittgenstein's 'On certainity' as Pyrrhonism in action / Duncan Pritchard
  • In quest of a Wittgensteinian hinge epistemology / Annalisa Coliva
  • Paradigms and self-reference: what is the point of asserting paradoxical sentences? / Jakub Mácha
  • "Life is very complicated": remarks on a recurring adjective / David R. Cerbone
  • Wittgenstein on truth / Paul Horwich
  • Part II: Theoretical Sciences: Wittgenstein's philosophy: re-orientating science / Michael Nedo
  • Showing in Wittgenstein's ab-Notation / Gregory Landini
  • Thinking in spaces: a characteristic of Wittgensteinian philosophy / Pascal Zambito
  • Foundations of mathematics: from Hilbert and Wittgenstein to the categorical unity of science / Yoshihiro Maruyama
  • Wittgenstein on physics / Chon Tejedor
  • The physics of miniature worlds / Susan Sterrett
  • Wittgenstein's thought experiments and relativity theory / Carlo Penco
  • Wittgenstein's solution to Einstein's problem: calibration across systems / Susan Edwards Mckie
  • Quantum physics and cognitive science from a Wittgensteinian perspective: Bohr's classicism, Chomsky's universalism, and Bell's contextualism / Yoshihiro Maruyama
  • Can robots learn to talk? / Lars Hertzberg
  • Wittgenstein versus zombies: an investigation of our mental concepts/ Edward Witherspoon
  • The soul and the painter's eye / Michel ter Hark
  • Wittgenstein on seeing as; some issues / Paul Snowdon
  • Wittgenstein and an essay in formal biology / Nikolay Milkov
  • The ecological economics revolution? Looking at economics from the vantage-point of Wittgenstein's and Kuhn's philosophies / Rupert Read
  • MISC: aesthetic gestures: elements of a philosophy of art in Frege and Wittgenstein / Nikolay Milkov
  • The lens of architecture: Wittgenstein, vision, space, and language / Nana Last
  • Wittgenstein's torments of the mind / Ilse Somavilla
  • Wittgenstein and the inexpressible / Freeman Dyson.