Wittgenstein — eine Neubewertung/towards a re-evaluation. Proceedings of the fourteenth international Wittgenstein symposium, centenary celebration, held in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 13-20, 1989. Vol. I-III. (English, German) Zbl 0749.03003

Schriftenreihe der Wittgenstein-Gesellschaft. 19. Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky. 336 p./Bd. I; 313 p./Bd. II; 347 p./Bd. III (1990).

The first two volumes of this three-volume set contain invited papers, the third one gives a selection of shorter papers which were presented at the workshops of that Wittgenstein Symposium.
The first volume presents, together with the Opening Address, 31 papers grouped according to the topics: the philosophy of the Tractatus-period; philosophy of logic and mathematics; the transitory period of the thirties; the task of philosophy; ethics and religion. Volume II contains another 29 papers devoted to the topics: philosophy of language; descriptive psychology; Wittgenstein’s biography and specific questions of interpretation; the problem of truth; Wittgenstein’s position in the philosophical tradition; the relation between philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
The 77 shorter papers of volume III fall under the following topics: the interpretation and ontology of the Tractatus; phenomenology and grammar; philosophy of mathematics; on what cannot be said and on the transcendental; questions of semantics; the problem of rule-following; on “On Certainty”; Wittgenstein’s style of thinking; ethics and religion.
At all, these volumes present an impressive wealth of material concerning the philosophical ideas of Wittgenstein and their impact on the philosophy of the 20th century. Only a few of them, yet, are directly related to the philosophy of mathematics and logic.

Reviewer: S.Gottwald (Leipzig)

MSC:

03A05	Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations
00A30	Philosophy of mathematics
01A99	History of mathematics and mathematicians
00B25	Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest
03-06	Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to mathematical logic and foundations

Keywords:

Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria); Proceedings; Symposium; Wittgenstein; philosophical semantics; philosophy of logic; philosophy of language; philosophy of mathematics