Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tags: Philosopher.

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic the philosophy of mathematics the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. From 1929–1947 Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge. During his lifetime he published just one slim book the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) one article one book review and a children’s dictionary.

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birth date

1889-04-26

birth place

Austria-Hungary, Linz, Vienna, Austria

death date

1951-04-29

death place

Cambridge

era

20th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118634313

influenced

Alan Turing, Bertrand Russell, Daniel Dennett, G. E. Moore, Rudolf Carnap, Saul Kripke, John Searle, Frank P. Ramsey, Peter Hacker, Vienna Circle, G. E. M. Anscombe, Gilbert Ryle, Hans Sluga, Stephen Toulmin

influenced by

Arthur Schopenhauer, Baruch Spinoza, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Heinrich Hertz, Søren Kierkegaard, Gottlob Frege, Hermann von Helmholtz, Leo Tolstoy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

main interest

Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mathematics, Logic

notableIdea

Anti-realism, Intuitionism, Philosophical Investigations, Set theory, Fideism, Private language argument, Family resemblance, Quietism, Analytic philosophy, Language-game (philosophy), Form of life (philosophy), Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics, Picture theory of language, Semantic externalism, Ordinary language philosophy, Truth function, Logical truth, State of affairs (philosophy), Rule_following

philosophicalSchool

Analytic philosophy

latitude

52.2176

longitude

0.1001