The objective of this article is to try elucidate Wittgenstein’s extravagant thesis that each and every mathematical advancement involves some “semantical mutation”, i.e., alteration the very meanings terms involved. To do we will argue in favor idea a “modal incompatibility” between concepts involved, as they were prior advancement, what become after new result was obtained. We also adoption p...

Quantificational accounts of logical truth and logical consequence aim to reduce these modal concepts to the nonmodal one of generality. A logical truth, for example, is said to be an instance of a "maximally general" statement, a statement whose terms other than variables are "logical constants." These accounts used to be the objects of severe criticism by philosophers like Ramsey and Wittgens...

In their book “Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience”, the philosopher Peter Hacker (Oxford University) and the neuroscientist Max Bennett (University of Sydney) join forces to draw attention to some of the most entrenched conceptual confusions in neuroscience and consciousness research. Coming from a Wittgensteinian perspective in analytical philosophy, the two authors defend an anti-reduc...

In Carnap’s autobiography, he tells the story how one night in January 1931, “the whole theory of language structure” in all its ramifications “came to [him] like a vision”. The shorthandmanuscript he produced immediately thereafter, he says, “was the first version” ofLogical Syntax of Language. This document, which has never been examined since Carnap’s death, turns out not to resemble Logical...

Decisions must be justified. In medical ethics various grounds are given to justify decisions, but ultimate justification seems illusory and little considered. The philosopher Wittgenstein discusses the problem of ultimate justification in the context of general philosophy. His comments, nevertheless, are pertinent to ethics. From a discussion of Wittgensteinian notions, such as 'bedrock', the ...