Wittgenstein Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This document is a summary of all the articles for the course Interpretation of Cultural Expressions, year 1 of Online Culture at Tilburg University including a conceptual toolbox at the final page

All weekly reading questions with clear answers including all keywords, concepts, and examples in some cases. This includes; Logical Empiricism, Critical Rationalism, Hermeneutics, Practice Turn, Kuhn, Foucault, Hegel, Gadamer, Dilthey, Critical Theory, Benjamin, Adorno, Leezenberg, Wittgenstein, Austin, Butler, Keller... Reading questions from 2022

If God is dead, Ivan Karamazov insists, everything is permitted An invention of the late 1800s: the light bulb The problem of normativity concerns the gap between is and ought Nietzsche wants science to become more playful Dostoevsky: the vision of the anointed inevitably leads to narcissism A two-level theory includes a deep level that ____ what happens at the surface level. determines and explains Doyle's vision is tragic in that Sherlock Holmes has to mak...

STS Final Exam Updated 2023 with complete solution what effect do metaphors have on the complex questions we're discussing? metaphors further mystify the question at hand how are world wars a combination of past fighting techniques and the future world? both horseback and machine guns were used does Winner advocate for a more inclusive definition of progress? yes who is to blame for the "outsourcing pineapples" issue? society what is the most likely explanation for the Dunbar numbe...

STS Final Exam Updated 2023 with complete solution what effect do metaphors have on the complex questions we're discussing? metaphors further mystify the question at hand how are world wars a combination of past fighting techniques and the future world? both horseback and machine guns were used does Winner advocate for a more inclusive definition of progress? yes who is to blame for the "outsourcing pineapples" issue? society what is the most likely explanation for the Dunbar numbe...

A concise overview of all seven lectures, with all thinkers and concepts included. For some thinkers a little more information with citations included. Please note that Bruno Latour and Spiegel are missing from the summary, but everything else is included.

This lecture notes discusses the key concepts of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language.

Exam Practice: Answers Section 1: The Metaphysics of God Page viii: Three-mark questions Question 1 Answers might include some of the following points: • ‘God is supremely good’ can be taken to refer to the theological claim that, according to religious texts within monotheistic religions, God is all loving and omnibenevolent. • ‘God is supremelygood’ could also mean that God is perfect. In this sense – emphasised by Aquinas working within an Aristotelian tradition – God ...

1. a posteriori Literally "after experience"; knowledge that comes from experience 2. "a strutting wa- terfowl" Aristophanes said this about Socrates; In Aristophne's play, the bird mocks Socrates 3. Academy Plato's school 4. Achilles and the Tortoise Zano's paradoxes - infinities within infinities 5. actuality (act) God is actuality, matter is potentiality; contrast with poten- cy 6. air Anaxemendes thought this was the fundamental sub- stance 7. Alexander t...

This essay mainly focusses on Wittgenstein and the criticisms of it