Philosophical Anthropology: Wittgenstein’s Perspective

✍ Scribed by Jesús Padilla Gálvez (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 180
• Series: Aporia; 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If we read Ludwig Wittgenstein’s works and take his scientific formation in mathematical logic into account, it comes as a surprise that he ever developed a particular interest in anthropological questions. The following questions immediately arise: What role does anthropology play in Wittgenstein’s work? How do problems concerning mankind as a whole relate to his philosophy? How does his approach relate to philosophical anthropology? How does he view classical issues about Man’s affairs and actions? The aim of this book is to investigate the anthropological questions that Wittgenstein raised in his works. The answers to the questions raised in this introduction may be found on the intersection between forms of life and radical translation from another culture into ours. The book presents an extensive analysis of anthropological issues with emphasis on language and social elements.

✦ Table of Contents

Philosophical Anthropology An Introduction JESÚS PADILLA GÁLVEZ
Wittgenstein’s Anthropological and Ethnological Approach P. M. S. HACKER
Hume and Wittgenstein’s on Human Nature ROBERT J. FOGELIN
Meaning and Action ALEJANDRO TOMASINI BASSOLS
Anthropological Representations and Forms of Life in Wittgenstein ANTÓNIOMARQUES
Ich und Andere JESÚS PADILLA GÁLVEZ
Wittgenstein and the Natural History of Human Beings NUNO VENTURINHA
Is there a Mind-Body Problem? CHRISTIAN KANZIAN
Norms and Conventions MANUEL GARCÍA-CARPINTERO1
The Psychology of Volition: “Problem and Method Pass One Another By” LARS HERTZBERG
‘Dirty’ and ‘Clean’ Between Ontology and Anthropology OLLI LAGERSPETZ
Konvergenztechnologien und die “technische Verbesserung des Menschen” Überlegungen zur philosophischen Anthropologie NICANOR URSÚA
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