Wittgenstein: Mind and Language

✍ Scribed by Georg Henrik Von Wright (auth.), Rosaria Egidi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 307
• Series: Synthese Library 245
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wittgenstein: Mind and Language brings together a collection of previously unpublished essays which offer a systematic account of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and contribute in an absolutely new and original way to illuminating his later conception of human perceptive, emotional and cognitive language from both a theoretical and an historical point of view. The focus is on the fundamental categories of philosophical grammar, on the analysis of intentionality, of belief and Moore's paradox, on certainty and doubt, on will, memory, sensations and emotions, as well as on the theory of aspects and private language and the relationship with relativism and psychologism.
In the recent literature there are undoubtedly numerous qualified publications dedicated to the themes of philosophical psychology as they emerge from Wittgenstein's Nachlaß and from his writings on this subject published in the last decade. This book, however, provides the essential points of reference of Wittgenstein's late treatment of psychological concepts in the context of the general features of his early philosophy of science and language and in the framework of the trends of his time.
The book is of special interest to scholars and students, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, logicians, historians of contemporary philosophy and science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Wittgenstein and the Twentieth Century....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Science....Pages 23-36
Wittgenstein on Mind and Metaphysics....Pages 37-46
Wittgenstein’s Alleged Metaphysics of Mind....Pages 47-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Le Réel et Son Ombre: La Théorie Wittgensteinienne de la Possibilité....Pages 59-81
Wittgenstein on the Meaning of Logical Symbols....Pages 83-91
On Following a Rule....Pages 93-105
Fodor and Wittgenstein on Private Language....Pages 107-115
Mentalesians and Wittgenstein’s Private Language....Pages 117-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Intentionality in Wittgenstein’s Works....Pages 127-136
Intentional Reference as a Logical Relation: A Variation on a Theme in Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Bergmann....Pages 137-170
Wittgenstein between Philosophical Grammar and Psychology....Pages 171-184
Notes on Phenomenology and Visual Space....Pages 185-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Disentangling Moore’s Paradox....Pages 195-205
Malcolm on Moore’s Paradox....Pages 207-210
Wittgenstein’s Refutation of Scepticism in ‘On Certainty’....Pages 211-222
Was Wittgenstein a Relativist?....Pages 223-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Wittgenstein on Language, Mind and Mythology....Pages 235-248
Emotion: Remarks on Wittgenstein and William James....Pages 249-262
Wittgenstein and Memory....Pages 263-277
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
How Ludwig Wittgenstein Would have Reacted to Recent Changes in Psychology....Pages 279-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-312

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language; Epistemology; Logic