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Why Wittgenstein disagreed with everyone (including himself) In 1921, he’d solved all the fundamental problems of philosophy – then he tore it all up

"...On his deathbed, he exclaimed: “Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.” Maybe so, yet you close this wonderful biography thinking that the linguistic philosopher JL Austin summed him up best: “Poor old Witters.” " www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/12aace9...

Thank you! As a former secretary of the Moral Sciences Club, I salute you with my Wittgensteinean poker

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A conversation on the towering self-confidence of the Wittgenstein family, the physicists who sparked some of Ludwig's ideas, music and the inexpressible, and--among other things--why life is maybe not like a pineapple.

‘Ludwig Wittgenstein’ Review: An Attack on the Abstract Wittgenstein argued that words have meaning “only in the stream of life.” Philosophical problems arise when “language goes on holiday.”

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Wittgenstein's great silence The philosopher sought freedom from the bewitchment of language.

An appreciative review of my Wittgenstein biography, from Bryan Appleyard:
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That's what Karl Kraus (on whom Wittgenstein was very keen) said about psychoanalysis.

“Fixing” the Definitions of Philosophical Terms - Daily Nous Sometimes, philosophical terms mean one thing, but sound like they really ought to mean something else. That was the premise of the Uxbridge Dictionary of Philosophy, a compilation of "misdefinitions"...

Philosophical terminology unseriously explained: dailynous.com/2025/10/29/f...

On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy” In 1931, at the age of forty-one, Ludwig Wittgenstein mused in his diary that perhaps his name would live on only as the end point of Western philosophy—“like the name of the one who burnt down the…

The first chapter of my new short biography of Wittgenstein is free to read at Lit Hub: lithub.com/on-the-simpl...

First review of my new short biography of Wittgenstein, in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...

I'm pleased to say that this is now available for pre-order: www.amazon.com/Ludwig-Wittg...

He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break? Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

My piece on Leibniz, in this week's issue of the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Book Review: ‘Herald of a Restless World,’ by Emily Herring Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

Many thanks - working link is this: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b...

Book Review: ‘Herald of a Restless World,’ by Emily Herring Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

Many thanks - working link is this: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b...

Book Review: ‘Herald of a Restless World,’ by Emily Herring Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

Before Beatlemania, there was Bergsonmania: my review of a new biography of Bergson www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b...