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first glance the philosophy Wittgenstein seems and negative; for he philosophy to the task of "uncovering and he argued that a large of philosophical questions answerable...
Rogers G. Albritton, associate professor of Philosophy, is studying the metaphysics of Aristotle and the later philosophy of Wittgenstein...
During the last seventy years Russell's thinking has formed an indelible imprint on his times. He grew up in the Cambridge of Whitehead, Moore, Broad, Wittgenstein, Eddington, Rutherford, and Keynes, and he has always seemed a product of the intellectual vigor of Cambridge undergraduate life at the turn of the century. Those were the days before an English University education had become part of the professional class's struggle for existence, and for Whitehead and Russell, Cambridge conformed almost exactly to the Platonic ideal of education; they divided their time between mathematics and free discussion with their friends...
This afternoon, from 3-5, Associate Professor Albritton gives Philosophy 244, Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown Books. Match that...
...volume, he took nearly three times as much space.) As ground bait in the chilling stream of philosophic speculation, the publishers have sprinkled 500 illustrations, half of them in color, through this volume. From Thales (circa 624-546 B.C.), about whom little is known, to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind of the West. Says he: "The current trend towards more and fiercer specialisms is making men forget their intellectual debts to their...