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Wittgenstein Guide

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READ AND ASSESS THE FOLLOWING:

Plato
-Theaetetus (In 1944, Wittgenstein stated that Plato was seemingly dealing with the
same problems as him in this text)
-Parmenides (In 1948, Wittgenstein considered this Plato's most profound work)

Aristotle
-Categories

Gottlob Frege
-The Concept of Function
-On Sense and Reference (1892)

Anthony Kenny
-Introduction to Frege

Familiarise yourself with Kantian Mathematics.

A.C. Grayling
-Russell: A Very Short Introduction

Bertrand Russell
-The Principles of Mathematics (1903)
-On Denoting (1905)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtrA3TwpXsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WnkGaLHhy0&list=PL43773947700D4F0C

G.E. Moore
-Principia Ethica (1903)
-A Defence of Common Sense (1925)
-A Proof of the External World (1939)

Raymond Monk
-The Duty of Genius

Raymond Monk
-How to Read Wittgenstein

A.C. Grayling
-Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction

Ludwig Wittgenstein
-Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Published in German 1921, Published in English
1922, Written during WW1, Do not read Bertrand Russell's Introduction, Wittgenstein
notoriously tried to remove it)

G.E.M. Anscombe
-An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Anthony Kenny
-Wittgenstein

Max Black
-A Companian to Wittgenstein's Tractatus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_function

Ludwig Wittgenstein
-The Blue and Brown Books (Posthumously Published 1958, Written 1933-1935)

Ludwig Wittgensten
-Philosophical Investigations (Published 1953, Part I was written between 1929-1945
and Part II was written in the last period of his life)

Marie McGinn
-Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations

Saul Kripke
-Wittgenstein: On Rules and Private Language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2XviTFNis

Watch the following Lectures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1RPRp5bDgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNaBRR-XeAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGKaBUWrWwE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG0EWNezFl4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6gocvGMWDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQHiGrCNwJI

Ludwig Wittgenstein
-On Certainty (Published 1969, Written in the last year of his life)

Rush Rhees
-Wittgenstein's On Certainty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ode5CSshKPk

Ludwig Wittgenstein
-Remarks on Colour (Published 1977, Written in the last year of his life)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxaFZNPOcq4

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