Wittgenstein in AmericaTimothy G. McCarthy, Timothy McCarthy, Sean C. Stidd Clarendon Press, 2001 - 280 pages This remarkable collection explores the legacy of Wittgenstein's work in contemporary American philosophy. The contributors (including several celebrated philosophers) take a variety of approaches to Wittgenstein; they discuss such topics as rule-following, realism about mathematics, the method of the Tractatus, the relation between style and content in Wittgenstein, and his distinction between sense and nonsense. Wittgenstein also is discussed in relation to subsequent philosophers such as Quine and Kripke. |
Contents
The Sense Is Where You Find It | 90 |
How Long Is the Standard Meter in Paris? | 104 |
Was Wittgenstein Really an Antirealist | 140 |
The Expression of Belief | 195 |
Wittgensteins Plan for the Treatment of | 215 |
Morality Human Understanding and the | 237 |
The Investigations Everyday Aesthetics of Itself | 250 |
Bibliography | 267 |
Common terms and phrases
actually anti-realist argue argument attributing game Begriffsschrift behavior believe Blackwell Caesar Cambridge Carnap Cavell claim concept connection context context principle Cora Diamond Crispin Wright determine discussion EMLAL essay example explain expression fact Frege genuine Gödel grammar Heidegger Heidegger's human idea identity imagine indeterminacy interpretation judgments kind Kripke Kripke's Kripkenstein language-game length linguistic logical syntax meaning meant measure metaphysical meter long meter rod Michael Dummett natural nonsense normative notion number theory objects ordinary language ostensive definition Oxford particular passage perspicuous Peter Winch Philosophical Investigations philosophy of mathematics picture possible prime number problem proof psychological question Quine Quine's reading reference rule-following Saul Kripke self-ascriptions semantic sense sentence someone sort speak speaker standard meter Stanley Cavell statement suppose Susan symbol techniques things thought tion Tractarian Tractatus translation true truth understanding University Press utterance Winch Wittgenstein says Wittgenstein's remarks Wittgensteinian words writing
References to this book
The Enchantment of Words:Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ... Denis McManus No preview available - 2006 |
Aversive Democracy: Inheritance and Originality in the Democratic Tradition Aletta J. Norval No preview available - 2007 |