Georg Henrik von Wright

Georg Henrik von Wright (June 14, 1916 – June 16, 2003) was a Finnish philosopher (his mother tongue being Swedish), who succeeded Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge. ("von Wright" is pronounced not as rite, but as, roughly, vrihkt.)

Works

• The Logical Problem of Induction, PhD thesis, 31 May 1941
• Den logiska empirismen (Logical Empirism), in Swedish, 1945
• Über Wahrscheinlichkeit (On Chance), in German, 1945
• An Essay in Modal Logic, 1951
• A Treatise on Induction and Probability, 1951
• Deontic Logic, 1951
• Tanke och förkunnelse (Thought and Preaching), in Swedish, 1955
• Logical Studies, 1957
• Logik, filosofi och språk (Logic, philosophy and language), in Swedish, 1957
• The Varieties of Goodness, 1963, Considered by himself his best and most personal work.
• Norm and Action, 1963
• The Logic of Preference, 1963
• Essay om naturen, människan och den vetenskaplig-tekniska revolutionen (Essay on Nature, Man and the Scientific-Technological Revolution), in Swedish, 1963
• An Essay in Deontic Logic, 1968
• Time, Change and Contradiction, 1969
• Tieteen filosofian kaksi perinnettä (The Two Traditions of the Philosophy of Science), in Finnish, 1970
• Explanation and Understanding, 1971
• Causality and Determinism, 1974
• Handlung, Norm und Intention (Action, Norm and Intention), in German, 1977
• Humanismen som livshållning (Humanism as an approach to Life), in Swedish, 1978
• Freedom and Determination, 1980
• Wittgenstein, 1982
• Philosophical Papers I-III, 1983-1984
• Filosofisia tutkielmia (Philosophical Dissertations), in Finnish, 1985
• Vetenskapen och förnuftet (Science and Reason), in Swedish, 1986
• Minervan Pöllö (The Owl of Minerva), in Finnish, 1991
• Myten om framsteget (The Myth of Progress), in Swedish, 1993
• The Tree of Knowledge, 1993
• Att förstå sin samtid (To Understand one's own Time), in Swedish, 1994
• Six Essays in Philosophical Logic, 1996
• Viimeisistä ajoista. Ajatusleikki (On the End Times. A Thought Experiment.), in Finnish, 1997
• Logiikka ja humanismi (Logic and Humanism), in Finnish, 1998
• In the Shadow of Descartes, 1998
• Mitt liv som jag minns det (My Life as I Remember it), in Swedish, 2001