Brian McGuinness

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Brian McGuinness (* 22. October 1927 in Wrexham , Wales as Bernard Francis McGuinness ; † 23. December 2019 in Florence ) was a British philosopher . His works and publications are mainly related to the life and work of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle .

Life

McGuinness attended 1938-1945 the Mount St Mary's College in Sheffield and studied from 1945 to 1953 at Balliol College of Oxford University . There he was a student at Balliol College.

McGuinness was a student of RM Hare . He was 1953-1988 Fellow and tutor at Queen's College of Oxford University . From 1988 to 1990 he was a “Fellow-in-Residence” at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Wassenaar . From 1990 he was a professor at the University of Siena (Italy), from 1990 to 1993 he was director of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Sciences (Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Sociali). The University of Innsbruck awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2017.

Fonts

(Selection)

  • Wittgenstein. A life. Young Ludwig, 1889–1921 . University of California Press, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06451-8 (German as: Wittgenstein's early years. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-28614-5 )
  • with Guido Fronga: Wittgenstein: A Bibliographical Guide . Blackwell, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-631-13765-3 .
  • Approaches to Wittgenstein . Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-415-03261-X .
Editing
  • Gottlob Frege : Collected Papers on Mathematics, Logic and Philosophy . Blackwell, Oxford 1984, ISBN 0-631-12728-3 .
  • Hans Hahn : Empiricism, Logic and Mathematics. Philosophical Papers. ISBN 90-277-1065-1 .
  • Felix Kaufmann : The Infinite in Mathematics. Logico-Mathematical Writings . Kluwer, Dordrecht 1978, ISBN 90-277-0848-7 .
  • Ernst Mach : Principles of the theory of heat. Historically and critically elucidated . Reidel, Dordrecht et al. 1986, ISBN 90-277-2206-4 .
  • Karl Menger : Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium . Kluwer, Dordrecht 1994, ISBN 0-7923-2711-X .
  • Friedrich Waismann , Josef Schächter , Moritz Schlick : Ethics and the will. Essays . Edited by Brian McGuinness and Joachim Schulte. Kluwer, Dordrecht et al. 1994, ISBN 0-7923-2674-1 .
  • Friedrich Waismann: Causality and logical positivism . Springer, New York 2011.
  • Friedrich Waismann: Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. Conversations recorded by Friedrich Waismann . Blackwell, Oxford 1979 (German: Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. From the estate . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1967)
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein : Tractatus logico-philosophicus . Critical edition by Brian McGuinness and Joachim Schulte. Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-518-28959-4 .
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus . Routledge, New York 2001, ISBN 0-415-25408-6 .
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein in Cambridge. Letters and Documents 1911-1951. 4th edition. Blackwell, Malden 2008, ISBN 978-1-4051-4701-9 . (formerly known as Cambridge Letters )
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf Koder: Wittgenstein and the music. Ludwig Wittgenstein - Rudolf Koder. Correspondence . Edited by Martin Alber in collaboration with Brian McGuinness and Monika Seekircher. Haymon, Innsbruck 2000, ISBN 3-85218-338-3 .
  • Language, Logic, and Formalization of Knowledge. Coimbra Lecture and Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Siena in September 1997 . 1998, ISBN 88-87106-07-X .
  • The philosophy of Michael Dummett . Papers presented at the First International Philosophy Conference of Mussomeli, Sicily, Sept. 1991 . Kluwer, Dordrecht 1994, ISBN 0-7923-2804-3 .
  • Unified science . The Vienna monograph series, originally edited by Otto Neurath , now in an English edition . Reidel, Dordrecht 1987, ISBN 90-277-2484-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Brian McGuinness , University of Siena
  2. ^ Necrologio Brian Mcguinness. Retrieved December 29, 2019 (Italian).
  3. ^ Wittgenstein expert Brian McGuinness receives an honorary doctorate. University of Innsbruck, November 2, 2017, accessed on December 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME McGuinness, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McGuinness, Bernard Francis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Wrexham , Wales
DATE OF DEATH 23 December 2019
Place of death Florence