Statue of Georg Henrik von Wright in University of Helsinki

Georg Henrik von Wright (pronounced, roughly, fon vrikt, IPA: [je:ɔrj hɛn:rik fɔn-vrik:t],) (June 14, 1916 – June 16, 2003) was a Finnish philosopher, who succeeded Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge. He published in English, Finnish, German, and in his mother tongue Swedish. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 500 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1508 × 1808 pixel, file size: 274 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish philosopher. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 500 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1508 × 1808 pixel, file size: 274 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish philosopher. ... is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (IPA: ) (April 26, 1889 in Vienna, Austria – April 29, 1951 in Cambridge, England) was an Austrian philosopher who contributed several ground-breaking ideas to philosophy, primarily in the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. ... The University of Cambridge was the birthplace of the analytical school of philosophy in the early 20th century. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Von Wright's writings come under two headings. The first is analytic philosophy and philosophical logic in the Anglo-American vein. His 1951 books, An Essay in Modal Logic and Deontic Logic, were landmarks in the postwar rise of formal modal logic and its deontic version. He was an authority on Wittgenstein, editing his late work. He is a leader of modern Finnish philosophy, which specializes in philosophical logic, analysis, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the close study of Charles Peirce. The other vein in von Wright's writings is moralist and pessimist. During his last 20 years, partly under the influence of Oswald Spengler but he was also inspired by Jurgen Habermas and the Frankfurt schools reflections about modern Rationality.He wrote several books, the best known being The Myth of Progress, questioning whether our apparent material and techological progress can really be considered progress. He eventually discovered that Wittgenstein too had read Spengler, and (to the astonishment of von Wright) had liked him as well. Analytic philosophy (sometimes, analytical philosophy) is a generic term for a style of philosophy that came to dominate English-speaking countries in the 20th century. ... Philosophical logic is the application of formal logical techniques to problems that concern philosophers. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... In formal logic, a modal logic is any logic for handling modalities: concepts like possibility, existence, and necessity. ... Deontic logic is the field of logic that is concerned with obligation, permission, and related concepts. ... Philosophical logic is the application of formal logical techniques to problems that concern philosophers. ... Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. ... A phrenological mapping of the brain. ... Charles Sanders Peirce (IPA: /pɝs/), (September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American polymath, physicist, and philosopher, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (Blankenburg am Harz May 29, 1880 – May 8, 1936, Munich) was a German historian and philosopher, although his studies ranged throughout mathematics, science, philosophy, history, and art. ... Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory. ... Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxist social theory (which is more akin to anarchism than communism), social research, and philosophy. ... Rationality as a term is related to the idea of reason, a word which following Websters may be derived as much from older terms referring to thinking itself as from giving an account or an explanation. ...

Works

• The Logical Problem of Induction, PhD thesis, 31 May 1941
• Den logiska empirismen (Logical Empirism), in Swedish, 1945
• Über Wahrscheinlichkeit (On Chance), in German, 1945
• An Essay in Modal Logic, 1951
• A Treatise on Induction and Probability, 1951
• Deontic Logic, 1951
• Tanke och förkunnelse (Thought and Preaching), in Swedish, 1955
• Logical Studies, 1957
• Logik, filosofi och språk (Logic, philosophy and language), in Swedish, 1957
• The Varieties of Goodness, 1963. He considered this his best and most personal work.
• Norm and Action, 1963
• The Logic of Preference, 1963
• Essay om naturen, människan och den vetenskaplig-tekniska revolutionen (Essay on Nature, Man and the Scientific-Technological Revolution), in Swedish, 1963
• An Essay in Deontic Logic, 1968
• Time, Change and Contradiction, 1969
• Tieteen filosofian kaksi perinnettä (The Two Traditions of the Philosophy of Science), in Finnish, 1970
• Explanation and Understanding, 1971
• Causality and Determinism, 1974
• Handlung, Norm und Intention (Action, Norm and Intention), in German, 1977
• Humanismen som livshållning (Humanism as an approach to Life), in Swedish, 1978
• Freedom and Determination, 1980
• Wittgenstein, 1982
• Philosophical Papers I-III, 1983-1984
• Filosofisia tutkielmia (Philosophical Dissertations), in Finnish, 1985
• Vetenskapen och förnuftet (Science and Reason), in Swedish, 1986
• Minervan Pöllö (The Owl of Minerva), in Finnish, 1991
• Myten om framsteget (The Myth of Progress), in Swedish, 1993
• The Tree of Knowledge, 1993
• Att förstå sin samtid (To Understand one's own Time), in Swedish, 1994
• Six Essays in Philosophical Logic, 1996
• Viimeisistä ajoista. Ajatusleikki (On the End Times. A Thought Experiment.), in Finnish, 1997
• Logiikka ja humanismi (Logic and Humanism), in Finnish, 1998
• In the Shadow of Descartes, 1998
• Mitt liv som jag minns det (My Life as I Remember it), in Swedish, 2001

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• 1961. Notebooks 1914-1916.
• 1967. Zettel.
• 1969. On Certainty.
• 1971. ProtoTractatus -- An Early Version of Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus. Cornell University Press.
• 1973. Letters to C.K. Ogden with Comments on the English Translation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
• 1974. Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore.
• 1978 (1956). Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics.
• 1980. Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology. Vols 1,2.
• 1980. Culture and Value.
• 1982. Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol. 1. Vol. 2, 1992.