Wittgenstein's Poker

The book content is what to be expect.Book condition is great not within plastic fold but, fine condition.Expedition time not meeting the expectation as Amazon Prime, sorry. It arrive express post.It was bought in 12th and arrived on 17th.Can you improve Amazon Prime?🤔

An opportunity to experience a comprehensive summary of the life and times of a most unique and remarkable mind, it's power/force, and it's vulnerabilities.

A very interesting recount of an historical clash of philosophies. Recommended to me by a friend, I found it to be thrilling for the scientist in me.

A very readable, very well written and often engrossing account of two great philosophers battle of wits. What makes this book so interesting is the wealth of relevant detail and insight the authors bring to their subject matter, which includes providing biographical, historical, personal as well as philosophical background to that emotionally charged encounter in a Cambridge University seminar room. They bring all these many strands very skillfully together and weave them into a very finely crafted narrative.The encounter itself is not particularly interesting, nothing really philosophically significant happened, however it's the build up to this clash of diametrically opposed and passionately held ideas, the contrasting biographies, the evocation of Cambridge academia and of the intellectual life of early 20th century Vienna that make this book such an all round riveting read.The authors have also managed to clearly explain the rudiments of both Wittgenstein's and Popper's main philosophical ideas and the contexts in which they developed.This book very successfully communicates the often latent excitement of philosophical ideas and why they have mattered and should matter. Analytic philosophy often comes over as dry and abstruse, but this book reminds us that this kind of philosophizing can have great cultural and personal significance - it is possible to be passionate about the theory of falsifiability and the logic of language!

I studied philosophy of science at the LSE so I'm interested in Popper, Professor John Watkins, the LSE .... and Wittgenstein because of his reputation and "charisma". I have read various books about Wittgenstein and Poppers' main texts.I enjoyed Wittgenstein's Poker because it touches upon so many topics that are hot buttons for me, eg what is philosophy, induction, falsification, the boundaries between science and metaphysics and between sense and nonsense, whether linguistic philosophy is a blind alley, whether Popper and Wittgenstein were great philosophers? The issues are explored against a contrived background ie the only time Popper and Wittgenstein met (October 25th 1946).I think the book is more a light detective story for those with a taste for philosophy, briefly sketching the work and characters of each man, .... than it is a serious book about philosophy or intellectual history. The book is well-written (at times it began to take my breathe away with it's eloquent clarity), but it doesn't cover new ground or delve very deeply, and I don't believe that the meeting in Cambridge is important (except as a story-telling device).For the reviewer who thought the book could be used for a film, I recommend "The House of Wittgenstein" which I found deeper and with a majestic sweeping backdrop. I had thought that IT might make a good film (though where's the female love interest).