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Nel tempo e nello spazio. Linguaggio e natura nella filosofia di Ludwig Wittgenstein

Alice Morelli    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

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The paper focuses on some naturalistic aspects of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. Wittgenstein has often been considered a radical anti-naturalist philosopher, mainly because he does not endorse the thesis of the continuity between philosophy and science. However, it will be argued that Wittgenstein’s later philosophy incorporates a kind of naturalism without naturalization, i.e., a liberal naturalism, in virtue of the relation between human nature and language. It will be concluded that Wittgenstein’s liberal naturalism provides an example of a naturalistic perspective on language which avoids the limits of an intellectualist approach without leading to scientism: this is meant to express the irreducibility of naturalism to the mere scientific version.

Published
July 27, 2019
Accepted
Feb. 25, 2019
Submitted
Feb. 5, 2019
Language
IT
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-326-7
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-325-0

Keywords: NatureNaturalismLanguageNaturalizationWittgenstein

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