Book ID: CBB000931082

Wittgenstein Flies a Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World (2006)

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Sterrett, Susan G. (Author)


Pi Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xxii + 329 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Argues “that Wittgenstein drew the inspiration for his groundbreaking Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1914) from theories of physics and of music.” (from the publisher)


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Review Simons, Peter (2009) Review of "Wittgenstein Flies a Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 151). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Zellini, Susanna
Zalabardo, José L.
Nakano, Anderson
Persichetti, Alessio
Cimini, Amy
McNally, Thomas
Journals
Perspectives on Science
Synthese
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Journal of the History of Ideas
Intellectual History Review
Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Springer
Routledge
Presses Universitaires de France
Edizioni ETS
Carocci
Concepts
Philosophy
Physics
Logic
Philosophy of science
Linguistics; philology
Music
People
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Roads, Curtis
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph
Turing, Alan Mathison
Spinoza, Baruch
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Denmark
Institutions
Vienna Circle
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