Ludwig Wittgenstein

Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, ‘Ludwig Wittgenstein’ in Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Robert T. Craig, Jefferson D. Pooley, and Eric W. Rothenbuhler, eds., International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy (Maiden: Wiley, 2016), ISBN: 978-1-118-29073-6, online ISBN: 9781118766804, DOI: 10.1002/9781118766804Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) is one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. He is best known for Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations, and On Certainty. Wittgenstein's philosophy covers a great range of topics including logic, mathematics, religion, aesthetics, anthropology, psychology, culture, and perception. In his treatment of these, Wittgenstein exposes and redefines our understanding of mind, language, meaning, and action