The paper considers indexing an activity which deals with linguistic entities. It rests on the assumption that a theory of indexing should be based on a philosophy of language, because indexing is concerned with the linguistic representation of meaning. The paper consists of four sections: It begins with some basic considerations on the nature of indexing and the requirements of a theory on thi...

I WANT TO MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONCEPTS (BEGRIFFE) AND CONCEPTIONS (Auflassungen), and a related distinction between descriptions (Beschreibungen) and pictures (Bilder). I will then try to put this material to work in clarifying an important dimension in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Invest&ations: the difference between conceptual analyses and overviews ( Ubersichten or Uberblicken) [comp...

We examine within a life-cycle set-up the simultaneous choice of health care and retirement (together with consumption), when health care contributes to both a reduction in mortality and in morbidity. Health tends to impact on retirement via morbidity, determining the disutility of work, and through longevity, determining the need to accumulate retirement wealth. In contrast, the age of retirem...

In response to Mauro Lúcio Leitão Condé, Michael Peters writes “A Viennese Wittgenstein? A Condé” in order reveal that his process of reading Wittgenstein or any philosopher, opposing ideas through others, is part the language game philosophy and often brings benefits terms understanding.

It is an acknowledged fact that Wittgenstein read Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation. ) in his youth, and possibly other works by the same author (Anscombe, 1963; McGuiness, 1988). In general, Wittgenstein is reluctant to recognize other authors' influences on his thought, but in his Notebooks, 1914-1916 2 he makes explicit reference to Schop...

The following comments are concerned with a book that is the second part of the posthumous publications of selected fragments from Wittgenstein in which he sets forth his later philosophy. The necessity of making a selection and the fragmentary character noticeable at points are not overly problematic, since in his publications Wittgenstein refrains from a systematic presentation anyway and exp...