Article ID: CBB296871977

Alice Ambrose and the American Reception of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics, 1935–75 (2020)

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Alice Ambrose (1906–2001) worked throughout her intellectual life to unpack her teacher Ludwig Wittgenstein's contributions to philosophy. Unlike her more renowned Cambridge-educated colleagues, Ambrose endeavored as an American logician to account for how it was that Wittgenstein challenged not only philosophers' prior conceptions of ordinary language but also the very epistemic premises on which doing philosophy was conceived. For as she maintained, the "peace" Wittgenstein offered philosophy was in effect the dissolution of mathematicallogical misunderstandings. Drawing on materials both private and published, this article seeks to uncover the transatlantic origins of Ambrose's postwar meditations on the resolution of philosophical problems in mathematical logic. Throughout, I will show that a key to understanding the American reception of Wittgenstein's "therapeutic" philosophy after 1945 is Ambrose's unique engagement with her teacher's work and with the history of philosophy.

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Authors & Contributors
Lara Piersanti
John Erik Hmiel
Ahmet Süner
Silvio Bozzi
Laks, Bernard
Arrighi, Claudia
Concepts
Philosophy
Logic
Mathematics
Epistemology
Philosophy of science
Language and languages
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Medieval
20th century, late
12th century
Places
Italy
Poland
Great Britain
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