Tractatus 5.1362 (recargado)

Diego Marconi; Kurt Wischin

doi:10.5281/zenodo.7964128

Diego Marconi University of Turin, Italy
Kurt Wischin University of Granada, Spain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7964128

Keywords: Inference, Facts, Necessity, Free Will, Predictability

Abstract

At Tractatus 5.1362 Wittgenstein discusses free will; the paragraph is essentially anticipated in the Notebooks, 27.4.15. Very few commentators paid any attention to Wittgenstein's discussion; the few who did disagree on both the structure and the cogency of Wittgenstein's argument. I offer a new reconstruction, on which 5.1362 is not an argument for freedom of the will but an argument for its first sentence, namely “The freedom of the will consists in the impossibility of knowing [now] actions that still lie in the future". In a final section, I compare 5.1362 with Wittgenstein's much later (mid-Forties) lecture on the freedom of the will , as reported by Yorick Smythies in 1989.

Author Biographies

Diego Marconi, University of Turin, Italy

Diego Marconi, (Emeritus, Laurea in Filosofia, Torino 1969; PhD, Philosophy, Pittsburgh 1979) was professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Torino until 2017. He previously taught at the University of Cagliari and the University of Eastern Piedmont. He also gave logic and philosophy courses at Pittsburgh, Geneva, Barcelona and the University of the Basque Country. During his graduate studies he was a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund (1974-76). At Eastern Piedmont he headed the Humanities Dept. (1997-2001), the philosophy curriculum (1992-95), the communication science curriculum (2001-03), and the Doctoral Program in Philosophy of language (1994-2004) In Torino he has been Chair of the advanced curriculum in Philosophy (2007-09). Until recently he was a member of the Research Observatory of the University of Torino. He is or was a Senior Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at Pittsburgh (1983), NATO-CNR Fellow (1987), Chercheur Associé at CREA (now the Centre Jean Nicod; 1996), Invited Research Scholar at the University of California at Irvine (2004), Visiting scholar at Oxford (2010) and Barcelona (2010). He was President of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (1996-98) and belongs to the Boards of several Italian academic institutions. He was among the founders of the European Society of Analytic Philosophy (1990), being a member of the Society's first Steering Committee. He was a member of the Philosophy panel of ERIH (2005-06). He has been (2011-13) the coordinator of the subpanel of Philosophy of the Italian Evaluation Agency (ANVUR). He belongs to the Editorial Board of several journals (Dialectica, Mind & Society, Eur. J. of Philosophy, Eur. J. for Philosophy of Science, Revue philosophique de Louvain, and others). He was or is a referee for those journals and many others, for the University of Padova and Venice, and for Columbia UP and Oxford UP. He was editor in chief of Dizionario Palazzi-Folena della lingua italiana (with C. Marello, 1986-92) and the 2nd edition of Enciclopedia Garzanti di Filosofia (with M. Ferraris, 1993). He is a member of the Torino Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea. In 2013 he was awarded the Medal for Philosophy of the Italian Society of Neuroethics.

Kurt Wischin, University of Granada, Spain

Kurt Wischin es miembro de FiloLab UGR Unidad de Excelencia de la Universidad de Granada, España. Doctorando [≈ CPhil] en Filosofía en la Universidad de Granada. Su primer contacto formativo con la filosofía académica se produjo en Viena durante la década de 1970. Obtuvo una licenciatura en Filosofía en la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro y una Maestría en Filosofía en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Su trabajo en filosofía toma como punto de partida la filosofía de Wittgenstein, en particular tal como se condensa en Investigaciones filosóficas. Sus actividades de investigación actuales se centran en los años fundacionales de la filosofía contemporánea de la lógica y el lenguaje, poniendo especial énfasis en el desarrollo de la doctrina de Frege y su influencia en la formación del Tractatus, así como en la filosofía analítica en general temprana. Ha publicado diversos artículos, capítulos de libro, traducciones y reseñas académicas.

References

Alvarez, Maria (2016). «Wittgenstein on Action and the Will». En A Companion to Wittgenstein, editado por Hans–Johann Glock y John Hyman, pp. 491–501. Oxford: Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118884607.ch31.

Anscombe, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret (1971). An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, (2a edición). Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

Black, Max (1964). A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hyman, John (2011). «Wittgenstein on Action and the Will». Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol. 82: pp. 285– 311. DOI: 10.1163/9789401200592_012.

Frascolla, Pasquale (2007). Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus, London & New York: Routledge. [edición original en italiano, Roma: Carocci 2000]. DOI: 10.4324/9780203390757.

Glock, Hans–Johann (1996). A Wittgenstein Dictionary, Oxford: Blackwell.

Glock, Hans–Johann, y Hyman, John, eds. (2016). A Companion to Wittgenstein, Oxford: Blackwell, Oxford. DOI: 10.1002/9781118884607.

Kenny, Anthony. 1973. Wittgenstein, Londres: Penguin Press.

Mion, Giovanni (2017). «Tractatus 5.1362», Philosophical Inquiries, Vol. 5, No. 1: pp. 27–32.

Marconi, Diego (2009). «Wittgenstein and Necessary Facts». En Wittgenstein: Mind, Meaning and Metaphilosophy, editado por Pasquale Frascolla, Diego Marconi y Alberto Voltolini, pp. 140–166. Londres: Palgrave Macmillan.

Mounce, Howard Owen (1981). Wittgenstein's Tractatus. An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell.

Soleri, Sandro (2003). Note al Tractatus logico–philosophicus di Wittgenstein, Napoli: Bibliopolis.

Spinoza, Baruch (1677). Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata. Traducido al inglés por Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1883). MTSU Philosophy Web Works, Hypertext Edition, 1997. https://capone.mtsu.edu/rbombard/RB/Spinoza/ethica–front.html. La traducción al español se basa en: Spinoza, Baruj (1677). Ética demostrada según el orden geométrico. Edición y traducción por Atilano Domíngez. Madrid: Trotta. https://somacles.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/baruch-spinoza-ecc81tica-demostrada-segucc81n-el-orden-geomecc81trico-trotta-2000.pdf

Trakakis, Nick y Cohen, Daniel, eds. (2008). Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Wenzel, Christian Helmut (2016). «Wittgenstein and Free Will». En Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Methods and Perspectives, Proceedings of the 37th International Wittgenstein Symposium, editado por Sonja Rinofner–Kreidl y Harald Wiltsche, pp. 47–62. Berlín: De Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110450651-004.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1922/1961). Tractatus Logico–Philosophicus [TLP]. Translated by David Pears and Brian McGuinness. Londres: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1979). Notebooks 1914–1916, 2a edición. Traducido al inglés por Gertrude Elisabeth Margaret Anscombe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1989). «A Lecture on Freedom of the Will», apuntes por Yorick Smythies [1945–46 o 1946–47]. [LWF]. Philosophical Investigations Vol. 12, No. 2: pp. 85–100.

Tractatus 5.1362 (reloaded)

Abstract

Author Biographies

References

Most read articles by the same author(s)

Journal indexed in