My answer on the final exam got me booted from the university.

No person could reasonably claim to have the answer to the meaning of life. An even more daring claim is to know what meaning is at all. What is the meaning of these very words? Of language as a whole ...

Wittgenstein argued that words have meaning “only in the stream of life.” Philosophical problems arise when “language goes on ...

Parting words tonight are from Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein. He was the Austrian philosopher. He intensely studied math and logic and language, so you might think he'd say intensely serious ...

Born into a wealthy Viennese family, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was the glamour boy of English philosophy in the 20 th century, and in the new millennium his influence continues to ...

Many people believe that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was the 20th century’s most important philosopher. It is somewhat ironic, then, that he is probably best known for waving a poker at fellow ...

In 1943, two of the century’s most original thinkers—Ludwig Wittgenstein and Simone Weil—found themselves in bomb-battered London, looking for medical work to help the war effort. Though they never ...