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Harré on Hertz and the Tractatus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2006

John Preston
John Preston
Affiliation:
The Universtiy of Reading
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Abstract

The literature on Heinrich Hertz’s influence on Wittgenstein goes back some way. Not all the main commentators discuss or even notice that influence, although it has been particularly emphasised by James Griffin, by Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin, and by Leonard Goddard and Brenda Judge.

Type
Discussion
Information
Philosophy , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 357 - 364
Copyright
2006 The Royal Institute of Philosophy

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Footnotes

I am grateful to the Arts and Humanities Research Board, an award from whose Research Leave Scheme enabled me to undertake work on Hertz’s philosophy and, for comments, to members of the audience at a conference on ‘The Tractatus and its History’ at the University of Stirling in September 2005. Quotations from Hertz are from The Principles of Mechanics, presented in a new form, trans. D.E.Jones & J.T.Walley (New York: Dover Publications, 1956). Quotations from Wittgenstein are from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D.F.Pears & B.F.McGuinness (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961).