Philosophical Topics, Vol. 38, No. 1, Ethics (SPRING 2010), pp. 181-203 (23 pages) There are intriguing hints in the works of Stanley Cavell and Stephen Mulhall of a possible connection between ethics ...

OF ALL THE innovations that sprang from the trenches of the first world war—the zip, the tea bag, the tank—the “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” must be among the most elegant and humane. When the ...

A BEARDED SWEDE in a three-piece suit stands at a lectern. Spotlit, Erik Bünger tells his listeners about an exchange between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell in 1911. According to ...

Many people believe that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was the 20th century’s most important philosopher. It is somewhat ironic, then, that he is probably best known for waving a poker at fellow ...

A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background. By Nikhil Krishnan Nikhil Krishnan is the author of “A Terribly Serious ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is acknowledged as a major philosopher of the 20th century. I often came across references to his friendship with an Irish doctor, Maurice Drury, of whom I knew nothing. Happily, ...