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This volume gathers papers, which were read at the congress held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain), in September 2007, under the general subject of phenomenology. The book is devoted to Wittgenstein’s thoughts on phenomenology. One of its aims is to consider and examine the lasting importance of phenomenology for philosophic discussion. For E. Husserl phenomenology was a discipline that endeavoured to describe how the world is constituted and experienced through a series of conscious acts. His fundamental concept was that of intentional consciousness. What did drag Wittgenstein into working on phenomenology? In his “middle period” work, Wittgenstein used the headline “Phenomenology is Grammar”. These cornerstones can be signalled by notions like language, grammar, rule, visual space versus Euclidean space, minima visibilia and colours. L. Wittgenstein’s main interest takes the form of a research on language.

About the editor

Jesús Padilla Gálvez studied Philosophy, History and Mathematics at the University of Cologne (Germany) and was awarded M.A. in 1983 and Dr. phil. in Philosophy in 1988. He was Research Assistant (1988-1991) at the University of Murcia (Spain) and later held the post of Associate Professor (1992-1994) for Logic and Philosophy of Language at the University of León (Spain). From 1994 to 1999 he was Guest Professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz (Austria). Since 1999 he has been Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain). He held visiting posts at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), Graz (Austria), Potsdam (Germany), Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Munich (Germany). He is the author of Referenz und Theorie der möglichen Welten (1989), El Círculo de Viena, reconsiderado (1996), Wittgenstein y el Círculo de Viena / Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis (1998), Tratado Metateórico de las teorías científicas (2000), Wittgenstein, from a New Point of View (2003); Idealismus und Sprachanalytische Philosophie, (2007), El laberinto del lenguaje / The Labyrinth of Language (2007) and Verdad y demostración (2007), and of numerous articles.

ISBN: 978-3-938793-91-6 224 pp Hardcover €59.00

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