Wittgenstein's Poker The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidinow Ecco, 352 pp., $24 LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN and Karl Popper met only once--just ...

One chilly October evening in 1946, a group of Cambridge philosophers and students gathered for the weekly meeting of the Moral Science Club. They were to hear a paper by Karl Popper. Among those ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper apparently met only once, although they were born only three years apart in the same city (Vienna), descended from members of the same caste (affluent ...

IT WAS the first and only time they came face to face — the legendary meeting of two of the 20th century’s intellectual titans, philosophers Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Popper had been ...

In an interview with the New York Times to coincide with the release of their new film, Burn After Reading, Joel and Ethan Coen demonstrated their high spirits for the benefit of the delighted ...

In October 1946, philosopher Karl Popper arrived at Cambridge to lecture at a seminar hosted by his legendary colleague Ludwig Wittgenstein. It did not go well: the men began arguing, and eventually, ...

If Jacques Derrida had been born a Kennedy, he might have come close to matching Ludwig Wittgenstein’s curious combination of affluence and intellect. Wittgenstein was both a philosopher of towering ...

Toronto-based Harvard philosophy graduate David Egan certainly jumped in the deep end when he decided on an incident involving philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and Bertrand Russell as the ...

Although Mark Jenkins’ review of Wittgenstein’s Poker (City Books, “Brains’ Storm,” 3/22) was in the main unobjectionable, his conclusion, perhaps also the conclusion of the book’s authors, was false.

In 1946, in a small room in Cambridge, England, a routine meeting of the Kings College Moral Science Club may or may not have marked the apex of a half-century's worth of social and intellectual ...