Was Wittgenstein a Plagiarist?

Philosophy

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 451-459

  Cohen, Michael ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85009434173     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031819101000390     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Laurence Goldstein, ‘Wittgenstein's Ph.D. Viva---A Re-Creation’, Philosophy 74, No. 4 (October 1999), 499–513.
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated D. F Pears & B. F. McGuinness (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, second impression, 1963), 2.
3. A. C. Grayling, Russell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 101.
4. Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy, (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., revised and reset, 1926) 60–61. My selections from this passage are not the same as Grayling's.
5. Bertrand Russell, ‘The Philosophy of Logical Atomism’, in Logic and Knowledge, ed. Robert Charles Marsh, (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988), 177.
6. Quoted in Bertrand Russell, Autobiography (London & New York: Routledge, 1998), 282.
7. Bertrand Russell, ‘On the Nature of Truth and Falsehood’, Philosophical Essays (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1966), 158.
8. Bertrand Russell, Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, xix.
9. Goldstein, 505.
10. Jan Sebestik, ‘The Archaeology of the Tractatus: Bolzano and Wittgenstein’, Wittgenstein---Towards a Re-Evaluation, R Haller and J Brandl (eds), (Vienna: Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1989), 112–118.
11. These are not the only cases in which Goldstein is careless in attributing his own views to others. He cites M. W. Rowe's discussion of the influence of Goethe on Wittgenstein in support of his claim that the latter's literary style is ‘derivative’ from the former's. I can find nothing in Rowe's discussion to support the suggestion that Rowe believes this, or that it is true. See M. W. Rowe, ‘Goethe and Wittgenstein’, Philosophy, 66 (1991), 283–303.
12. Bernard Bolzano, Theory of Science, (ed. and trans. Rolf George) (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1972), 255.
13. Bertrand Russell, The Principles of Mathematics (London: George Allen & Unwin, 2nd edition, 1937) (7 and 356).
14. Bolzano, 219.
15. Gottlob Frege, Kleine Schriften, (ed. Ignacio Angelleli) (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1967) 150, 151.
16. Frege, 134.