Brian McGuinness
Brian McGuinness was a British philosopher.
Formerly a pupil of RM Hare, McGuinness became a noted expert in the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein. McGuinness was a Fellow and Tutor at Queen's College in Oxford University from 1953 to 1988, and took a post at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. In 1990, he became a professor at the University of Siena, Italy. From 1990 to 1993, he was director of the faculty of philosophy and social sciences of this university. During his time at Queen's, he was an invited speaker at the Oxford Socratic Club, speaking with J. D. Mabbott on "The Problem of Free Will" on Nov. 14, 1955.Family
His son, Paddy McGuinness, is a British civil servant who is currently the Deputy National Security Adviser for Intelligence.Select bibliography
- Approaches to Wittgenstein,
- Wittgenstein: A Bibliographical Guide,
- Wittgenstein: A Life: Young Ludwig, 1889-1921,
;As an editor
- Gottlob Frege: Collected Papers on Mathematics, Logic and Philosophy,
- Friedrich Waismann, Josef Schächter, Moritz Schlick: Ethics and the will. Essays,
- Hans Hahn: Empiricism, Logic and Mathematics: Philosophical Papers,
- Felix Kaufmann: The Infinite in Mathematics: Logico-Mathematical Writings,
- Ernst Mach: Principles of the Theory of Heat : Historically and Critically Elucidated,
- Karl Menger: Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Cambridge Letters,
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
- Language, Logic, and Formalization of Knowledge : Coimbra Lecture and Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Siena in September 1997,
- The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, with Gianluigi Oliveri,
- Unified science. The Vienna monograph series, originally edited by Otto Neurath, now in an English edition.
