WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.

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Typescript of Lectures on Philosophical Psychology. A volume of lecture notes recording Wittgenstein's work in the years before the Second World War. Despite the extensive efforts to reconstruct his lectures after his death in 1951, these notes remained unpublished for the remainder of the 20th century.Wittgenstein was appointed to a lectureship at Cambridge in mid-1938, before securing the university's philosophy chair in early 1939. He permitted only a handful of students to take notes during his lectures: James Taylor (1914-1946) of Trinity College was one such student, and his records, along with those by Rush Rees and Yorick Smythies, were used from the 1960s onwards to reconstruct Wittgenstein's thoughts on various supplemental topics. These notes record Wittgenstein's thinking on such topics as "Pain and behaviour", "Sense-impressions and pictures" and "Knowledge, beliefs, states of mind".

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