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Nordic Wittgenstein Review

ISSN: 2242-248X

Edited by: Nordic Wittgenstein Society

About this journal

The Nordic Wittgenstein Review publishes original contributions on all aspects of Wittgenstein’s thought and work – exegetical studies as well as papers drawing on Wittgensteinian themes and ideas in contemporary discussions of philosophical problems. It is interdisciplinary in character, and welcomes contributions in the subject areas of philosophy and other human and social studies including philology, linguistics, cognitive science, and others.

The Nordic Wittgenstein Review includes a book review section, and a section in which seminal works are re-published or where previously unpublished archive materials are made available for the first time.

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Volume 2 Issue 1

August 2013

Publicly Available August 20, 2013

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Note by the Editors

Alois Pichler, Simo Säätelä, Yrsa Neuman

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Invited Paper: Did Wittgenstein Write on Shakespeare?

Joachim Schulte

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Abstract

It is often claimed that certain remarks by Wittgenstein reveal him to have been an unsympathetic reader of Shakespeare and an unappreciative judge of the latter’s achievements. In the present paper, I attempt to show that this sort of observation is not only wrong but due to an inadequate perspective. An examination of the relevant remarks may bring to light a number of more or less interesting principles of evaluation, or aesthetic maxims and appraisals, but these do not say much about Shakespeare’s works, nor are they meant to be instructive in this way. What Wittgenstein’s remarks are really about is his own intellectual physiognomy: it is by way of contrast, by comparing certain features of Shakespeare with what he supposes to be characteristic of himself, that he hopes to learn about the limits and potentialities of his own personality.

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Wittgenstein’s True Thoughts

Andrew Lugg

Page range: 33-56

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The central remarks of the Tractatus are without substantial content or consequence, remarks at the boundaries of sense that dissolve into truth. While they say nothing, they encapsulate logical features of language and the world. Unasserted, they express thoughts, the truth of which Wittgenstein takes to be unassailable and definitive, while asserted, they are out-and-out nonsense. What is manifest in linguistic practice is no more sayable - and no less significant - than what is manifest in logical truths, mathematical equations and the principles of mechanics.

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Language and Logic in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

Daniele Mezzadri

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This paper investigates Wittgenstein’s account of the relation between elementary and molecular propositions (and thus, also, the propositions of logic) in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus . I start by sketching a natural reading of that relation - which I call the “bipartite reading” - holding that the Tractatus gives an account of elementary propositions, based on the so-called picture theory, and a different account of molecular ones, based on the principle of truth-functionality. I then show that such a reading cannot be attributed to Wittgenstein, because he holds the view that an explanation of logical complexity is already given by a correct account of the (pictorial) nature of elementary propositions; this is implied in his claim that “an elementary proposition contains all logical constants/operations in itself”. After clarifying Wittgenstein’s notion of an operation from the Notes on Logic to the Tractatus , I finally explain why Wittgenstein claims that an elementary proposition contains all logical operations in itself, and hence why he can be said to provide a unified (and thus not bipartite) account of language and logic.

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The Joint Philosophical Program of Russell and Wittgenstein and Its Demise

Nikolay Milkov

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Between April and November 1912, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein were engaged in a joint philosophical program. Wittgenstein’s meeting with Gottlob Frege in December 1912 led, however, to its dissolution - the joint program was abandoned. This paper outlines the key points of that program, identifying what Russell and Wittgenstein each contributed to it. It determines precisely those features of their collaborative work that Frege criticized. Finally, building upon the evidence developed in the first two sections, it recasts, along previously undeveloped lines, Wittgenstein’s logical- philosophical discoveries in the two years following his encounter with Frege in 1912. The paper concludes with an overview of the dramatic consequences the Frege-Wittgenstein critique had for Russell’s philosophical development.

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Wittgenstein’s “Inner and Outer”: Overcoming Epistemic Asymmetry

Tero Vaaja

Page range: 107-130

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In this article, I identify three ways in which Wittgenstein opposed an idea of epistemic asymmetry between the first person and the secondor- third person. Examining the questions of 1) absence of doubt about my own experience and uncertainty about the experiences of others, 2) ineffability of subjective experience and 3) immediacy of my knowledge of my own experience contrasted with my merely inferential knowledge about the experiences of others, I see Wittgenstein’s remarks about “inner and outer” as a many-faceted denial of the claim that people’s minds are in some deep way unknowable to others. These considerations also serve to clarify Wittgenstein’s relation to behaviorism.

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Interview. From Positivist Rabbi to Resolute Reader: James Conant in Conversation with Niklas Forsberg, Part 1

Niklas Forsberg, James Conant

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From The Archives. Moore’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933: Text, Context, and Content

David Stern, Gabriel Citron, Brian Rogers

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Book Reviews

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Volume 2 (2013)

Issue 1

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Editorial

From 2014 onwards, the journal will be edited by the member departments of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society in turn, with two issues annually.

Editors (2014)
Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi University)
Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi University)

Contact information
E-mail yneuman@abo.fi

Postal address
Nordic Wittgenstein Review
c/o Yrsa Neuman, Philosophy Dept
Arken, Åbo Akademi
Fabriksgatan 2
FI-20500 Turku
Finland

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Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: July 20, 2012
Last published: August 1, 2013
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year
Audience: Academics (Philosophy, Linguistics), Libraries, Institutes
Keywords: Wittgenstein/Tradition and Debates

Nordic Wittgenstein Review

Table of Contents

Note by the Editors

Invited Paper: Did Wittgenstein Write on Shakespeare?

Abstract

Wittgenstein’s True Thoughts

Abstract

Language and Logic in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

Abstract

The Joint Philosophical Program of Russell and Wittgenstein and Its Demise

Abstract

Wittgenstein’s “Inner and Outer”: Overcoming Epistemic Asymmetry

Abstract

Interview. From Positivist Rabbi to Resolute Reader: James Conant in Conversation with Niklas Forsberg, Part 1

From The Archives. Moore’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933: Text, Context, and Content

Book Reviews