@inbook{58822,
  abstract     = {{In 1921, John Wisdom (1904–1993) became a member of Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge, where he read philosophy and attended lectures by G. E. Moore, C. D. Broad, and J. E. McTaggart. He received his BA in 1924, after which he worked for five years at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. From 1929 to 1934, Wisdom was a Lecturer in the department of logic and metaphysics at the University of St Andrews and a colleague of G. F. Stout. After the publication of his book Interpretation and Analysis (1931) and five articles on “Logical Constructions” in Mind (1931–3), Wisdom became a Lecturer in Moral Sciences in Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. This gave him the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Since nothing by Wittgenstein but Tractatus appeared in print for decades, Wisdom’s publications of these years were—mistakenly—read as portents of the new ideas of Wittgenstein himself. The publication of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations in 1953 brought with it, among other things, the fall of Wisdom’s popularity. }},
  author       = {{Milkov, Nikolay}},
  booktitle    = {{Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, 2 vol., Volume II}},
  editor       = {{Khani , Ali Hossein  and Kemp , Gary }},
  keywords     = {{elucidation, facts, Frege, language, metaphysics, G. E. Moore, Russell, Stebbing, John Wisdom, Wittgenstein}},
  publisher    = {{Routledge}},
  title        = {{{Wisdom's Wittgenstein}}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}

@inbook{58821,
  abstract     = {{Susan Stebbing wrote only once on Wittgenstein, in her paper ‘Logical Positivism and Analysis’ (1933). The paper was unusually critical of Wittgenstein. It put the Cambridge analytic philosophy of Moore and Russell in a sharp opposition to the positivist philosophy of the Vienna Circle, in which Stebbing included Wittgenstein. Whereas the positivists were interested in analysing language, the Cambridge realists were analysing facts. To be more explicit, the analytic philosophers were engaged in directional analysis, which seeks to illuminate (to elucidate) the multiplicity of the analysed facts. In contrast, positivists aimed at a final analysis that proves that there are simples. Stebbing’s sympathies were clearly on the side of the Cambridge realists. The important implication of Stebbing’s paper was that it urged Wittgenstein to change the style of his philosophy, abandoning those points which allegedly connected him with the Vienna Circle.}},
  author       = {{Milkov, Nikolay}},
  booktitle    = {{Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, vol. II}},
  editor       = {{Khani , Ali Hossein  and Kemp , Gary }},
  keywords     = {{directional analysis, elucidation, facts, metaphysics, G. E. Moore, Russell, Stebbing, John Wisdom, Wittgenstein}},
  publisher    = {{Routledge}},
  title        = {{{Stebbing's Wittgenstein}}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}