WAB: "Fragments" | The contribution available from this site is an excerpt from Masahiro Oku: Philosophico-Philological Studies on Wittgenstein's Nachlass, Report on Research Project #14510011, Grant-In-Aid For Scientific Research, Japan Ministry of Education, Osaka University, Japan, 2005. Publication on WAB's website with kind permission from the author (2005.4.15).

Masahiro Oku: Philosophico-Philological Studies on Wittgenstein's Nachlass

The original printed version of Philosophico-Philological Studies on Wittgenstein's Nachlass contains Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, written in Japanese. These chapters were cut in this ‘international’ version. As the result, Chapter 3 is the first chapter of this version. If anyone will be interested in the first two chapters, please do not hesitate to contact Masahiro Oku.

Chapter 4 is an English abstract of Oku's paper “On Wittgenstein's 'World-Picture' in his On Certainty”, written in Japanese. The abstract itself was originally printed on p.89 in the Bulletin of Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, vol. 30 (2004).

Chapter 5 is an English abstract of Oku's paper "What is the "metalogical" in Wittgenstein?", written in Japanese. The abstract was originally printed on p.122, in the Bulletin of Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, vol. 31 (2005).

Chapter 6 “Some Remarks on the Editing and Publishing of Zettel” is a full text of Oku's contributed paper for the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium, August 2004.

Chapter 7 “Appendix: Correlation Tables for TS 228 and TS 233” contains results not published before.

Go to Masahiro Oku: Philosophico-Philological Studies on Wittgenstein's Nachlass, including Chapters 3-7 (PDF file). NB: Page numbers differ from the printed version.