From the <i>Philosophical Remarks</i> to <i>The Unity of Science</i>

Authors

  • David Gerald Stern University of Iowa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dp.v6i1.13351

Keywords:

fisicalismo, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Prioritätstreit, linguagem fenomenal, linguagem física, physicalism, phenomenal language, physical language

Abstract

In the summer of 1932, Wittgenstein alleged that a recently published
paper of Carnap's, "Physicalistic Language as the Universal Language of Science"
made extensive and unacknowledged use of Wittgenstein's own ideas. In a letter
to Schlick he complained that he would "soon be in a situation where my own
work shall be considered merely as a reheated version or plagiarism of Carnap’s."
In this paper, I look at the relationship between Carnap’s paper, subsequently
reprinted as The Unity of Science, and Wittgenstein’s discussion of related topics
in the first seven chapters of the Philosophical Remarks and other writing from
1929-1932.

Author Biography

David Gerald Stern, University of Iowa

Professor, Department of Philosophy.  He is the author of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction.  (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Wittgenstein on mind and language (Oxford University Press, 1995).  He is also a co-editor of Wittgenstein Reads Weininger, with Béla Szabados (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, with Hans Sluga (Cambridge University Press, 1996.)

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How to Cite

Stern, D. G. (2009). From the <i>Philosophical Remarks</i> to <i>The Unity of Science</i>. DoisPontos, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/dp.v6i1.13351

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2009): V. 6 n. 1 (2009) The Middle Wittgenstein

Section

Wittgenstein Intermediário

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