De Gruyter The Mechanics of Meaning: Propositional Content and the Logical Space of Wittgenstein's Tractatus: 57 (Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, 57)

Amazon Review "Arguing that all sensibilia are organized in manifolds, Helmholtz paved the way for Hertz to speak of mind and nature as dynamical models of one another. And it was this notion of isomorphic representation that provided Wittgenstein with his solution to the central problem of Russell's theory of judgment, namely, what Hyder calls its sense-truth regress. ... elegant and parsimonious ... Hyder's work exemplifies just how much there is to learn from this other New Wittgenstein." - Alfred Nordmann, Perspectives on Science Product Description This book considers the origins of the Tractatus in Neo-Kantian philosophy of science, above all the work of Hermann von Helmholtz and Heinrich Hertz. The author argues that Wittgenstein's  notion of a "logical space", the precursor of the Stone space, developed out of formal problems in Frege's and Russell's theories of logic, but was then reinterpreted by Wittgenstein on the model of Hertz's Principles of Mechanics. The concluding section considers the relation between the theory of logical space and the notion of a language-game in Wittgenstein's later work, focussing on the relation between type-theory and grammar. About the Author David J. Hyder Academic Research Fellow at the Zentrum Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie of the University of Konstanz.David J. Hyder ist Wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Zentrum Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie der Universität Konstanz.