Essays about: "Wittgenstein"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the word Wittgenstein.
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1. "Not your darlings – but their mother's!" : Interpretative Difficulties with "Love" in Euripides' Medea
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorikAbstract : The aim of this Master’s thesis is to achieve philosophical clarity on an interpretative problem I have been struggle with in Euripides’ Medea: That Medea murders her own children, while claimingto love them. Situated within the philosophical and literary tradition of ordinary language philosophy and ordinary language criticism, the thesis draws on ideas, theoretical discussions, and concepts from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toril Moi, Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, and Niklas Forsberg – but also Søren Kierkegaard. READ MORE
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2. Mathematical Unconcealment and the Surveying of Proofs
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : Ever since the advent of computerized methods for solving mathematical problems, the concept of surveyability has played a central role in the debate surrounding what constitutes a mathematical proof. Ordinarily, it is by surveying the argument presented that the mathematician ascertains the truth of the conclusion, but with the advent of computer assisted technologies, there are mathematical conclusions known to be true without anyone ever having been able to survey the argument in its entirety. READ MORE
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3. Wittgenstein and the Chinese Room
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE
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4. The inclination for a preference.
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen KonsthögskolanAbstract : In this essay I have playfully ventured to rediscover what I might know about art,what has been formed and blended all this time inside my mind, by the sources,influences, readings, references I have come across. Partially to answer to myselfwhere is my trajectory, where is it headed, and in that tracing hopefully, I willprovide a short reading here about what I think is art, and how I approach it. READ MORE
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5. Wittgenstein´s Language Theory of 1930, Part 2: Consequences of an Overview
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE