Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition

✍ Scribed by Saul A. Kripke

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 162
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Saul Kripke has thought uncommonly hard about the central argument of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and produces an uncommonly clear and vivid account of that argument ...clearly and compellingly presented ...an exemplary piece of exposition." Times Literary Supplement "A detailed examination of what is clearly a central theme in Wittgenstein's writings." Times Higher Education Supplement "Kripke does bring a whole range of things into focus in a striking and provocative way ...What Kripke has achieved, I think, is the first successful translation of what Wittgenstein was saying into the idiom of the contemporary Anglo-American mainstream in philosophy ...full of excellent things." Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1.
Introductory......Page 12
2.
The Wittgensteinian Paradox......Page 18
3. The Solution and the 'Private Language'
Argument......Page 66
Postscript: Wittgenstein and
Other Minds......Page 125
Index......Page 158