Wittgenstein remarked to a number of people that he got the main idea for the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus upon reading an account of the use of a physical scale model with dolls and model automobiles and busses in a courtroom case about an traffic accident. He had, he said, been serving in the Austrian army at the Front in the Fall of 1914 at the beginning of World War I when he read a newsp...

The present work intends to problematize the possibility of aesthetics in Wittgenstein (1). For this, we start from a reconstruction critique aesthetic science as reductive explanation his Lectures on (2). Then, locate this particular instance within broader scope work, showing its coherence and theoretical continuity (3). Lastly, conclude that critical does not end all an Wittgenstein; but sin...

The aim of this paper is to make sense of cases of apparent nonsense in the writings of Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. Against commentators such as Cora Diamond and James Conant, we argue that, in the case of Wittgenstein, recognising such a category of nonsense is necessary in order to understand the development of his thought. In the case of Kierkegaard, we argue against the view that the noti...

This paper describes some features of Wittgenstein's Nachlaß which lie on the boundary between text and graphics. These deliberately ambiguous features are introduced as part of Wittgenstein's method of using "text-experiments" comparable to "thought-experiments". These features present problems of interpretation, and therefore of representation, in print or as encoded text for computer-aided a...