This book guides the reader through perhaps the single most important philosophical work of the twentieth century: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. Wilson presents this work in a radically new light, using short sections to clarify the main arguments, including the famous Private Langua
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
β Scribed by Ahmed, Arif
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2013;2010
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Cambridge critical guides
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction Arif Ahmed
1. From referentialism to human action: the Augustinian theory of language Robert Hanna
2. What's doing? Activity, naming and Wittgenstein's response to Augustine Michael Luntley
3. Measure for measure? Wittgenstein on language-game criteria and the Paris standard metre bar Dale Jacquette
4. Wittgenstein on family resemblance concepts Michael Forster
5. Wittgenstein on concepts Hans-Johann Glock
6. Wittgenstein vs contextualism Jason Bridges
7. Wittgenstein and the linguistic turn Richard Rorty
8. Rorty's Wittgenstein Paul Horwich
9. Are meaning, understanding, etc. definite states? John McDowell
10. Another strand in the private language argument David Stern
11. Deductive inference and aspect perception Arif Ahmed
12. Remembering intentions William Child
Bibliography
Index.
β¦ Subjects
Language and languages--Philosophy;Philosophy;Language and languages -- Philosophy
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