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- Ravel's Left Handed Piano ConcertoPaul Wittgenstein was a disabled pianist who persevered to request works such as Ravel's Piano Concerto. Ravel, in turn, respected the assignment by composing a complex piece that remains of high caliber in classical music today.
- Wittgenstein: Does Metaphysical Language Have Meaning?Wittgenstein is almost as much fun to read as Kant. That, there, is sarcasm.
Adolf Hitler and Ludwig Wittgenstein: Childhood Rivals?While Hitler was inspired by writer Karl Mary and composer Richard Wagner, he may have found his schoolmate Ludwig Wittgenstein less than inspirational and a target of childhood hate and envy.
The Language of Color: Can You See "Reddish-Green"?A discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's color theory
Dummett, Frege and Wittgenstein: A Dying Ideal in Academic PublishingThis piece argues that the early 20th century attitude toward academic publishing is preferable to the quantity-over-quality standard of today.- Wittgenstinian Analysis of Legal RealismWittgenstein on realism.
- Wittgenstein's Denial of Private Sensations as Real ThingsIn Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein establishes that we should deny that pains or any other private sensations are real things, through the use of his illustration of the beetle in the box.
Review of Colin McGinn's Book The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind InteractA philosophy professor takes an academic look at the power of movies and says that even Wittgenstein couldn't resist a cheesy Hollywood western.