This module is not currently running in 2022 to 2023.
The module will enable students to acquire knowledge and understanding of Wittgenstein's approach to philosophy, and to acquire familiarity with major themes especially in the areas of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. The module will give students practice in deploying their critical philosophical skills.
Total Contact Hours: 40
Also available at level 6 (PL573)
Essay (3,000 words) – 70%
Weekly Reading Summary (300 words) – 20%
Seminar Participation – 10%
Indicative Reading List
Hacker, P. (1997), Insight and Illusion: Themes in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Bristol: Thoemmes Press.
Kanterian, E. (2007), Wittgenstein, London: Reaktion Books.
Wittgenstein, L. (2001), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, London: Routledge.
Wittgenstein, L. (1972), The Blue and Brown Books, Oxford: Blackwell.
Wittgenstein, L. (1981), Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Oxford: Wiley.
Wittgenstein, L. (2009) Philosophical Investigations, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module Level 5 students will be able to:
Articulate and critically discuss the main ideas in the text;
Articulate and critically discuss the main arguments for those ideas;
Show some understanding of the main intellectual environment in which the text was written;
Show appreciation of the questions that were raised in the text and why they were important, and, connect these points to the above;
Show understanding of some of the criticisms of the text and analyse them.
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