La lite di Cambridge

Karl Popper's a sad case. One of the greatest geniuses of the last century, he was an analytical philosopher par excellence at the exact moment when everyone started to ignore analytical philosophy. But at least he got to survive to see himself become extinct. Wittgenstein and Popper were from oppos Leggi tutto

Ludwig Wittgenstein is regarded as one of the great philosophers of the 20th Century. His big idea was that a philosopher's job is to clarify the use of language to help us think more clearly. Early in his philosophical career, he believed that clarification could be achieved by making language more Leggi tutto

One of my favorite reads this year, it's delightful. Apparently it's a legendary anecdote: Karl Popper triumphantly debunking the whole foundation of Wittgenstein's philosophy so brutally that the latter, in impotent rage, threatened him with an iron poker and stormed out. The main reason it's legend Leggi tutto

This book was incredibly vapid. The book is a fluffy soap opera that doesn't attempt to seriously describe either man's thoughts, and what it did describe was subpar to any "Philosophers for Beginners" comic books. The authors' characterization of Wittgenstein vacillated between gross simplification Leggi tutto

والا من تا وقتی کتاب رو شروع کردم فک می‌کردم کتاب طنز و فکاهی قراره بخونم که خب اشتباه می‌کردم. دو سه باری تلاش کردم تا الان که رساله‌ی ویتگنشتاین رو بخونم و با شکست مواجه شده. با خوندن این کتاب مطمئن شدم دیگه سراغ اون نمی‌رم فعلا 😅 و اما پوپر! پر مورد ایشون هم چیز زیادی نمی‌دونستم و نمی‌دونم هنوز هم. Leggi tutto

While it purports to be about an emphatic argument between Wittgenstein and Popper, the book actually uses that incident as a way into exploring the cultural background of both authors, especially the way they were both shaped by Vienna and the rise of the Nazis. There is some philosophy there, but