Oswald Hanfling

Oswald hemp Ling (* December 21, 1927, † 25 October 2005) was a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Open University.

Hemp Ling studied at Birkbeck College, University of London philosophy and earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from 1970, he taught at the Open University -. , First as a lecturer and then as a professor. The strongest influences he was going by Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose philosophy he applied to different problems. So he dealt among other things with the question of the meaning of life, with epistemological and aesthetic issues as well as with the ordinary language philosophy.

Texts

• Logical Positivism - Blackwell 1981.
• The Quest For Meaning - Blackwell 1987.
• Life and Meaning: A Philosophical Reader (as ed.) - Blackwell 1988.
• Wittgenstein 's Later Philosophy - Macmillan Publishers in 1989.
• Philosophical Aesthetics (as ed.) - Blackwell 1992.
• Ayer - Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1997.
• Philosophy and Ordinary Language: The Bent and Genius of Our Tongue - Routledge 2003.