The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number
10 best books like The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number (Gottlob Frege): Philosophical Investigations, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, On Certainty, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition, Word and Object, The Blue and Brown Books, From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems, Naming and Necessity, Culture and Value
Philosophical Investigations
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0631231277 |
If you read first Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and then follow it with his Philosophical Investigations, you will treat yourself to perhaps the most fascinating intellectual development in the history of philosophy. Wittgenstein has the distinct merit of producing, not one, but two enormously...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0415254086 |
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061316865 |
Über Gewissheit = On Certainty, Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty is a philosophical book composed from notes written by Ludwig Wittgenstein over four separate periods in the eighteen months before his death on 29 April 1951. He left his initial notes at the home of Elizabeth Anscombe, who linked...
| Author | Saul A. Kripke |
| ISBN | 0674954017 |
Kripke is brilliant, and I only regret that it took me until now to read and to appreciate him. He gives an amazing exegesis of Wittgenstein, who was also brilliant, but obfuscated the fact by making his case with rhetorical questions. Kripke has figured out the answers to the rhetorical questions, and...
| Author | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| ISBN | 0262670011 |
Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion,...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061312118 |
These works, as the subtitle makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, among the most important & influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-34. The 'Brown Book' was a draft...
| Author | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| ISBN | 0674323513 |
These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and references—semantics. At the same time adjacent portions of philosophy and logic are discussed. To the existence of what objects may a given scientific theory be said to be committed? And what considerations may suitably guide...
| Author | Kurt Gödel |
| ISBN | 0486669807 |
In 1931, a young Austrian mathematician published an epoch-making paper containing one of the most revolutionary ideas in logic since Aristotle. Kurt Giidel maintained, and offered detailed proof, that in any arithmetic system, even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which...
| Author | Saul A. Kripke |
| ISBN | 0674598466 |
If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it.
Ever since the publication of its original version, "Naming and Necessity" has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0226904350 |
Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture & value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English & a subject index for reference.
"It was Wittgenstein's habit to record his thoughts in sequences of more or less closely related...
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and was imprisoned several times as a result of...
Language, Truth, and Logic
| Author | A.J. Ayer |
| ISBN | 0486200108 |
Classic introduction to objectives & methods of schools of empiricism & linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth &...
The Problems of Philosophy
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 1421903679 |
Plato, in the Symposium, was perhaps the first person to consider the question of the "unliked review". If a review never receives any votes, can it truly be said to exist? This problem has tormented many of the world's greatest philosophers. Bishop Berkeley's famous answer is that God reads and likes...
