It is usually assumed that Wittgenstein's philosophical development is determined either by one dramatic or one subtle change of mind. This book challenges the one-change view. Wittgenstein had many changes of mind and they are so substantial that he can be understood as holding several different ph
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Development: Phenomenology, Grammar, Method, and the Anthropological View
✍ Scribed by Mauro Luiz Engelmann (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 333
- Series
- History of Analytic Philosophy
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Phenomenology, ‘Grammar,’ and the ‘Limits of Sense’....Pages 6-64
Russell’s Causal Theory of Meaning, Rule-Following, the Calculus Conception, and the Invention of the Genetic Method....Pages 65-112
The Big Typescript, the Tractatus, Sraffa, and the Anthropological View....Pages 113-170
The Road to the Philosophical Investigations (Blue Book, Brown Book, German Brown Book, and MS 142)....Pages 171-220
The Philosophical Investigations....Pages 221-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-316
✦ Subjects
History of Philosophy; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Logic; Philosophy of Language; Modern Philosophy; Phenomenology
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