John Searle on Ludwig Wittgenstein (1987)

Bryan Magee talks to John Searle about the legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; ranging from his early work, the Tractatus, to his posthumously published, Philosophical Investigations. The two linguistic philosophies of Ludwig Wittgenstein are discussed by Professor of Philosophy, John Searle. He examines Wittgenstein’s earlier picture theory of meaning, in which reality, as perceived by humans, determines the structure of the language used to describe it. A revised theory views language as a tool that, dependin