Brian McGuinness

Brian McGuinness (born Bernard Francis McGuinness, 22 October 1927, in Wrexham, United Kingdom^[1]) is an eminent British philosopher.^[2]

Formerly a pupil of RM Hare, McGuinness has become a noted expert in the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein. 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. Since 1990, he is 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.^[1]

Select bibliography

• Approaches to Wittgenstein, ISBN 0-415-03261-X
• Wittgenstein: A Bibliographical Guide (with Guido Fronga), ISBN 0-631-13765-3
• Wittgenstein: A Life: Young Ludwig, 1889-1921, ISBN 0-520-06451-8

As an editor

• Gottlob Frege: Collected Papers on Mathematics, Logic and Philosophy, ISBN 0-631-12728-3
• Friedrich Waismann, Josef Schächter, Moritz Schlick: Ethics and the will. Essays, ISBN 0-7923-2674-1
• Hans Hahn: Empiricism, Logic and Mathematics: Philosophical Papers, ISBN 90-277-1065-1
• Felix Kaufmann: The Infinite in Mathematics: Logico-Mathematical Writings, ISBN 90-277-0848
• Ernst Mach: Principles of the Theory of Heat : Historically and Critically Elucidated, ISBN 90-277-2206-4
• Karl Menger: Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium (with Gianluigi Oliveri). ISBN 0-7923-2711-X
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Cambridge Letters, ISBN 1-4051-4701-6
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, ISBN 0-415-25408-6
• Language, Logic, and Formalization of Knowledge : Coimbra Lecture and Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Siena in September 1997, ISBN 88-87106-07-X
• The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, with Gianluigi Oliveri, ISBN 0-7923-2804-3
• Unified science. The Vienna monograph series, originally edited by Otto Neurath, now in an English edition. ISBN 90-277-2484-9

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