A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background. By Nikhil Krishnan Nikhil Krishnan is the author of “A Terribly Serious ...

Very few people can claim to understand all the ideas that Vienna-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) advanced in logic, mathematics and language, but thanks to definitive books like Ray ...

I read Julian Baggini’s review of the new Ludwig Wittgenstein biography with keen interest (“An Attack on the Abstract,” Bookshelf, Nov. 19). In the late 1970s I was a graduate student in the ...

The author discusses his Internet artwork 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein, which uses a non-linear, hyperlinking structure to create a kind of metabiography anchored by Wittgenstein's life and ...

Philosophy has always had to defend itself against the charge that it is empty verbiage, unscientific speculation. Philosophers themselves are often the harshest and most astute critics of their own ...