Although Ludwig Wittgenstein's famously original and difficult philosophical work never translated into distinct school of thought, it did inspire two of the most influential movemements in 20th century philosophy - logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy. Wittgenstein's influence remains prominent throughout analytic philosophy, emerging in the works of thinkers as diverse as Michael Dummett, Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, and John McDowell.

The Early Wittgenstein

Logical Atomism

Logik

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Influence on Logical Positivism

The New Reading

The Later Wittgenstein

Meaning as Use

= Dummett on Harmony

Chomsky and Generative Linguistics

Inferential Role Semantics

Fodor's Critique

Language Games

The Private Language Argument

Kripke on Rules and Private Language

Inverted Spectrum Arguments

Influence on Ordinary Language Philosophy

On Certainty and Epistemology

Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics

Wittgenstein & Godel

Meta-analyses of Wittgensteinian Philosophy

Truth-Conditions vs. Assertion-Conditions

The New Reading