Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers, (Paperback)

from mykl-s

My first reading of this book left little impression, so much that revisiting it five years later I can hardly recall my earlier thoughts about it. The second reading has been more fruitful. Edmonds and Eidinow spend more time than needed trying to imagine exactly what happened in the meeting in ...

from joeteo1

The book centers around a brief encounter between Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein during a seminar by Popper at Cambridge. Before starting the book I wondered how such a fleeting event could merit 200 pages of text but the poker incident is more of a metaphor for the opposing philosophical vi...

from peacemover

Edmonds and Eidinow provide a fascinating window into a very brief, yet meaningful exchange between several of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper, and Bertrand Russell. Wittgenstein and many of the philosophy faculty, graduate students and other s...

from joshuaferris

I enjoyed Wittgenstein's Poker very much. I prefer the history of philosophy far more than actual philosophical problems/puzzles. This was a great book to introduce me to the persons of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper. My largest criticism is the bias toward Wittgenstein over Popper. I do und...

from burningtodd

This book claims to be the story of an argument between two of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. In fact it is more of a primer to different schools of philosophical thought with "the" argument has a leaping off point. Lots of good information, this book makes me want to read more ph...