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Chains of Life: Turing, Lebensform, and the Emergence of Wittgenstein’s Later Style |
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Juliet Floyd; Boston University; United States |
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Philosophy; |
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Lebensform; form of life; Wittgenstein Ludwig; logic; Turing Alan; Philosophical Investigations; Früfassung; Urfassung |
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This essay accounts for the notion of Lebensform by assigning it a logical role in Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. Wittgenstein’s additions of the notion to his manuscripts of the PI occurred during the initial drafting of the book 1936-7, after he abandoned his effort to revise The Brown Book. It is argued that this constituted a substantive step forward in his attitude toward the notion of simplicity as it figures within the notion of logical analysis. Next, a reconstruction of his later remarks on Lebensformen is offered which factors in his reading of Alan Turing’s “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem“ (1936/7), as well as his discussions with Turing 1937-1939. An interpretation of the five occurrences of Lebensform in the PI is then given in terms of a logical “regression” to Lebensform as a fundamental notion. This regression characterizes Wittgenstein’s mature answer to the question, “What is the nature of the logical?” |
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Nordic Wittgenstein Society (NWS) |
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2016-12-16
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Invited paper |
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FULLTEXT PDF |
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https://wab.uib.no/ojs/index.php/nwr/article/view/3435 |
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Nordic Wittgenstein Review; Volume 5 / Number 2 (Dec 2016), eds. Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen, Martin Gustafsson, Yrsa Neuman |
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en |
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