Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court lectures, Cambridge, 1938-1941: from the notes of Yorick Smythies

Abstract

Lectures on knowledge (Easter term 1938) -- Lectures on necessary propositions and other topics (Easter term 1938) -- Lectures on similarity (Michaelmas term 1939) -- Lectures on description (Lent term 1940) -- Wittgenstein's reply to a paper by Y. Smythies on 'Understanding' (lent term 1940) -- Lectures on belief (Easter term 1940) -- Lectures on volition (Michaelmas term 1940) -- Lectures on freedom of the will (Lent term 1941) -- Y. Smythies' 1940 paper on 'Understanding' -- Preparatory notes for Y. Smythies' 1945 paper on 'Meaning' -- The king of the dark chamber, by Rabindranath Tagore, translated from the English of Rabindranath Tagore into the English used by L. Wittgenstein and Yorick Smythies, by L. Wittgenstein and Yorick Smythies -- Comments prompted by the notes taken from Wittgenstein's lectures on volition and on freewill, by Y. Smythies