haven't seen this yet but w. was heavily schooled in mathematical philosophy - i'm not sure where the 'autodidact' comes from -
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, marc garrett wrote: > The History of Philosophy, from 600 B.C.E. to 1935, Visualized in Two > Massive, 44-Foot High Diagrams > > The history of philosophy tends to get mightily abbreviated. The few > philosophy professors I know don?t have much truck with generalist > ?history of ideas?-type projects, and the discipline itself encourages, > nay, requires, intensive specialization. Add to this glib comments like > Alfred North Whitehead?s on philosophy as a ?series of footnotes to > Plato,? and the eminent position of the erratic and comparatively > philosophically-unschooled autodidact Wittgenstein, and you have, in > modern philosophy, a sad neglect of the genealogy of thought. > > http://bit.ly/1ckY5Jp > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/sg.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
