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Wittgenstein's Tractatus

A research project hosted by the Department of Philosophy

and sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Publications

Relevant publications by staff working on the project include:

Michael Potter

• The metalinguistic perspective in mathematics. Acta Analytica, 11 (1993), 79-86.
• Intuition and reflection in arithmetic.  Arist. Soc. Supp. Vol. 73 (1999) 63-73.
• Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap.  Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Set Theory and its Philosophy.  Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Wittgenstein's Logic.  Forthcoming in J. Woods and D. Gabbay, eds., Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Logic, vol 3. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
   

Peter M. Sullivan

• Wittgenstein on 'The Foundations of Mathematics', June 1927. Theoria. Vol. 61, number 2, pp. 105-42, 1995.
• The 'truth' in solipsism, and Wittgenstein's rejection of the a priori. European Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 195-219, 1996.
• The totality of facts. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Vol. 100,  no. 2, pp. 175-92, 2000.
• A version of the picture theory, and Wittgenstein's context principle.  Both in W. Vossenkuhl (ed.), Wittgenstein: Tractatus -- Klassiker Auslegen. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001, pp. 65-88, 89-110.
• On trying to be resolute: a response to Kremer on the Tractatus. European Journal of Philosophy.  Vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 43-78, April 2002.
• A note on incompleteness and heterologicality.  Analysis.  Vol 63, no. 1, pp. 32-38, January 2003.
• Simplicity and analysis in early Wittgenstein. European Journal of Philosophy.  Vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 72-88, April 2003.
• Ineffability and nonsense.  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.  Supp. Vol. 77, pp. 195-223, 2003.
• 'The general propositional form is a variable' (Tractatus 4.53). Mind.  Vol. 113, no. 449, pp. 43-56, January 2004.
• Frege's Logic.  In J. Woods and D. Gabbay, eds., Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Logic, vol 2. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2004. PDF
• What is the Tractatus about?  In B. Weiss and M. Kölbel, eds., Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance, Routledge, 2004. PDF
• Identity theories of truth and the Tractatus.  Philosophical Investigations 28, Jan. 2005.PDF
• What is squiggle? Ramsey on Wittgenstein's theory of judgement.  (Draft, planned for a centenary volume on Ramsey.) PDF