Reading Tractatus, Understanding Wittgenstein

Danielle Macbeth

doi:10.5281/zenodo.7953196

Danielle Macbeth Haverford College, EE. UU:

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7953196

Palabras clave: Cora Diamond, lectura de inefabilidad, absurdidad, lectura resoluta, las guerras del Tractatus

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Wittgenstein escribe en la sección 6.54 del Tractatus: «Mis proposiciones esclarecen porque quien me entiende las reconoce al final como absurdas». El lector es confrontado con esto a una tarea: aprender a leer el Tractatus de tal manera que entienda a su autor. Se trata aquí de dos maneras de lectura; la lectura de «inefabilidad» y la lectura «resoluta», ninguna de las dos siendo libre de problemas. El objetivo es diagnosticar confusiones claves en el fondo de estas lecturas y empezar a señalar una alternativa viable.

Biografía del autor/a

Danielle Macbeth, Haverford College, EE. UU:

Danielle Macbeth is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Frege’s Logic (Harvard UP, 2005) and Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing (Oxford UP, 2014), as well as many essays on a variety of issues in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, the history and philosophy of mathematics, and other topics. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto in 2002 – 3, and has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Burkhardt Fellowship as well as a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

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