Philosophical Investigations Richard Wall Blackwell, £16.99, pp250 Buy it at a discount at BOL Is it the ever-changing light and the dark seas? Ireland has long been home to solitudes and to the kind ...

Wittgenstein Jr is an odd novel, but it is definitely meant to be odd. A lecturer in philosophy, Lars Iyer's comic invention and leaness in his previous works, Spurious, Dogma and Exodus, have invited ...

Very few people can claim to understand all the ideas that Vienna-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) advanced in logic, mathematics and language, but thanks to definitive books like Ray ...

I read Julian Baggini’s review of the new Ludwig Wittgenstein biography with keen interest (“An Attack on the Abstract,” Bookshelf, Nov. 19). In the late 1970s I was a graduate student in the ...

A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background. By Nikhil Krishnan Nikhil Krishnan is the author of “A Terribly Serious ...

Brian McGuinness has edited and compiled many collections of writings by Wittgenstein and about him, and his 1988 biography, reissued a few years ago as Young Ludwig, as well as being a fascinating ...

If there is one meeting of minds I’d love to drag out of history and into the AI era, it would be that shared by Alan Turing and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The real-life hookups between the young father of ...

Wittgenstein Jr is an odd novel, but it is definitely meant to be odd. A lecturer in philosophy, Lars Iyer's comic invention and leanness in his previous works, Spurious, Dogma and Exodus, have ...