Tripodi Analytic Philosophy and the Later Wittgensteinian Tradition

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-137-49990-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 269 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Philosophy and Religion (R0)

This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout the 1950s, Oxford was the center of analytic philosophy and Wittgenstein – the later Wittgenstein – the most influential contemporary thinker within that philosophical tradition. Wittgenstein's methods and ideas were widely accepted, with everything seeming to point to the Wittgensteinian paradigm having a similar impact on the philosophical scenes of all English speaking countries. However, this was not to be the case. By the 1980s, albeit still important, Wittgenstein was considered as a somewhat marginal thinker. What occurred within the history of analytic philosophy to produce such a decline? 

This book expertly traces the early reception of Wittgenstein in the United States, the shift in the humanities to a tradition rooted in the natural sciences, and the economic crisis of the mid-1970s, to reveal the factors that contributed to the eventual hostility towards the later Wittgensteinian tradition.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tripodi, Paolo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. From the Golden Age to the Decline.- 2. The Core and the Periphery.- 3. Carnapstein in America.- 4. Rigourism in the Humanities.- 5. Science, Philosophy and the Mind.- 6. Necessity, Style and Metaphilosophy.- 7. Concluding Remarks: The Last Decades.

Über Autor(innen)

Paolo Tripodi teaches history of philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy. His research focuses on the history of analytic philosophy, the later Wittgenstein and Wilfrid Sellars, as well as the attempt to apply distant reading methods to the history of philosophy. He recently co-edited a monographic issue of “Philosophical Inquiries” with Guido Bonino, devoted to the History of Late Analytic Philosophy (2018).