Wittgenstein’s Poker (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Edmonds, John Eidinow
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Biography and philosophy
- Time of Work: 1889-1994
- Setting: Cambridge, England; Vienna
- Principal Characters: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, Karl Raimund Popper, Bertrand Russell
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, England or English people, Austria or Austrians, Mathematics or mathematicians, Vienna
- Locales: Vienna, Austria, Cambridge, England
The time was 8:30 in the evening of Friday, October 25, 1946. The place was a set of rooms in the Gibbs Building of Cambridge University. The occasion was the weekly meeting of the Cambridge Moral Science Club, gathered to hear a paper by Dr. Karl Popper on the topic, “Are There Philosophical Problems?” A program that would ordinarily, on most campuses and with most participants, provide a sedate evening of academic chatter exploded in a verbal firefight between two extraordinarily sharp thinkers, Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The questions that remain today are what, exactly, was...
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