Английская Википедия:Brian McGuinness

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Brian McGuinness (22 October 1927 – 23 December 2019) was a Wittgenstein scholar best known for his translation, with David Pears, of the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus.

He was christened with the forenames "Bernard Francis" but changed his name to "Brian" in his youth. He commonly published, and was cited, as B. F. McGuinness.

Formerly a tutee of RM Hare, McGuinness was a Fellow and Tutor at Queen's College in Oxford University from 1953 to 1988, and took a post at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. In 1990, he became a professor at the University of Siena, Italy. From 1990 to 1993, he was director of the faculty of philosophy and social sciences of this university. During his time at Queen's, he was an invited speaker at the Oxford Socratic Club, speaking with J. D. Mabbott on "The Problem of Free Will" on 14 November 1955.

Family

His son, Paddy McGuinness, is a former British civil servant who was the Deputy National Security Adviser for Intelligence.

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Books authored

• Wittgenstein: A Life: Young Ludwig, 1889-1921, (1988) Шаблон:ISBN
• (with Guido Frongia) Wittgenstein: A Bibliographical Guide (1990) Шаблон:ISBN
• Approaches to Wittgenstein: Collected Papers, (2002). Шаблон:ISBN

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• "The Mysticism of the Tractatus", Philosophical Review, vol. 75 (1966), pp. 305–28.
• "Philosophy of Science in the Tractatus", Revue Internationale de Philosophie, vol. 23 (1969), pp. 155–64.
• "Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic", Revue Internationale de Philosophie, vol. 26 (1972), pp. 444–60.

Works edited/translated

• (with David Pears) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, (1961) Шаблон:ISBN
• Felix Kaufmann: The Infinite in Mathematics: Logico-Mathematical Writings, (1978) Шаблон:ISBN
• Hans Hahn: Empiricism, Logic and Mathematics: Philosophical Papers, (1980) Шаблон:ISBN
• Gottlob Frege: Collected Papers on Mathematics, Logic and Philosophy, (1984) Шаблон:ISBN
• Ernst Mach: Principles of the Theory of Heat: Historically and Critically Elucidated, (1986) Шаблон:ISBN
• Unified science. The Vienna monograph series, originally edited by Otto Neurath, now in an English edition. (1987) Шаблон:ISBN
• (with J. Schulte) Friedrich Waismann, Josef Schächter, Moritz Schlick: Ethics and the will: Essays, (1994) Шаблон:ISBN
• (with Gianluigi Oliveri) The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, (1994) Шаблон:ISBN
• (with Gianluigi Oliveri) Karl Menger: Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium (1994). Шаблон:ISBN
• (with George Henrik von Wright) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Cambridge Letters, (1995) Шаблон:ISBN
  • Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951 (2008) Шаблон:ISBN
• Language, Logic, and Formalization of Knowledge: Coimbra Lecture and Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Siena in September 1997, (1998) Шаблон:ISBN

External links

• "A Tapestry: Susan Edwards-McKie Interviews Professor Dr B. F. McGuinness on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday" Susan Edwards-McKie & Brian McGuinness, Nordic Wittgenstein Review 6 (2):85-90 (2017)
• November 2017 laudatio by Josef Mitterer given on the occasion of McGuinness receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Innsbruck.