Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Marc A. Joseph is Professor of Philosophy at Mills College.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Notes to the Tractatus
Appendix A: Influences and Antecedents
From Plato, Theaetetus
From Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea (1859)
From Heinrich Hertz, The Principles of Mechanics Presented in a New Form (1894)
From Paul Engelmann, Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein with A Memoir (1968)
Appendix B: Gottlob Frege’s Philosophical Writings
From Gottlob Frege, “Sense and Meaning” (1892)
From Gottlob Frege, “On the Foundations of Geometry” (1906)
Appendix C: Writings by Bertrand Russell
From Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica (1910)
From Bertrand Russell, “Mathematical Logic as based on a Theory of Types” (1908)
From Bertrand Russell, Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript (1913)
From Bertrand Russell, Introduction to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Appendix D: Additional Material by Wittgenstein
From Wittgenstein’s Letters to Russell (1912-19)
From Ludwig Wittgenstein, “A Lecture on Ethics” (1929)
Bibliography
Index