Colours in the development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy

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This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Having once said that “Colours spur us to philosophize”, the theme of colour was one to which Wittgenstein returned constantly throughout his career. Ranging from his Notebooks, 1914-1916 and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the posthumously published Remarks on Colours and On Certainty, this book explores how both his view of philosophical problems generally and his view on colours specifically changed considerably over time. Paying particular attention to his so-called intermediary period, it takes a case-based approach to the presentation of colour in texts from this period, from Some Remarks on Logical Form and Philosophical Remarks to his Big Typescript. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Marcos Silva)....Pages 1-8 Minima Visibilia, Single-Colored Patches, Points: Logical Analysis and its Visual Instances in Wittgenstein’s Early Notebooks (Ludovic Soutif)....Pages 9-32 Incompatible Colours and the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy (Andrew Lugg)....Pages 33-55 Tractatus Objects and the Logic of Color Incompatibility (Dale Jacquette)....Pages 57-94 What Does a Phenomenological Language Do? (Revisiting Some Remarks on Logical Form in Its Context) (Mauro L. Engelmann)....Pages 95-125 Logic and Phenomenology: Wittgenstein/Ramsey/Schlick in Colour-Exclusion (Mihai Ometiţă)....Pages 127-158 The “Color Problem”: Infinity and the Development of Wittgenstein’s Thinking (Anderson Luis Nakano)....Pages 159-184 Wittgenstein on Contradiction and Contrariety: Four Turning Points in the Development of his Philosophy of Logic (Marcos Silva)....Pages 185-214 The Grammar of Colours Advanced in Wittgenstein’s Middle Period (Axel A. Barceló, Salma Saab)....Pages 215-243 Using Colors: Phenomenology vs. Phenomenological Problems (James Thompson)....Pages 245-269 Wittgenstein’s Phenomenology (João Vergílio G. Cuter)....Pages 271-298 Wittgenstein on Colour and the Formation of Concepts (Frederik A. Gierlinger)....Pages 299-316 Colours, Phenomelogy and Certainty: Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colours in the Context of His Later Philosophy (Marcelo Carvalho)....Pages 317-337 The Harmony of Colour Concepts: Bridging the Early and the Late Wittgenstein (Ingolf Max)....Pages 339-371 Back Matter ....Pages 373-380