Wittgenstein and Brouwer |
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Authors: | Marion Mathieu |
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Institution: | (1) Département de Philosophie, Université du Québec á Montréal, C.P. 8888 Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, (Québec), Canada, H3C 3P8 E-mail |
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Abstract: | In this paper, I present a summary of the philosophical relationship betweenWittgenstein and Brouwer, taking as my point of departure Brouwer's lecture onMarch 10, 1928 in Vienna. I argue that Wittgenstein having at that stage not doneserious philosophical work for years, if one is to understand the impact of thatlecture on him, it is better to compare its content with the remarks on logics andmathematics in the Tractactus. I thus show that Wittgenstein's position, in theTractactus, was already quite close to Brouwer's and that the points of divergence are the basis to Wittgenstein's later criticisms of intuitionism. Among the topics of comparison are the role of intuition in mathematics, rule following, choice sequences, the Law of Excluded Middle, and the primacy of arithmetic over logic. |
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