Philosophical health : Wittgenstein's method in "Philosophical investigations" / Richard A. Gilmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilmore, Richard Allen, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Philosophische Untersuchungen.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Methodology--History--20th century.

Methodology.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [1999]

Contents:

The Return to Philosophy

Philosophical Investigations and Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Some Remarks

2. The Later Method and Epistemology 19

Philosophy: Introduction

Philosophy, Epistemology, and Skepticism

Pyrrhonic Skepticism and Wittgenstein

Philosophy and the Limits of Language

3. A New Philosophical Method 47

Wittgenstein's Method

4. The Method Analyzed 63

'Reading'

5. Some Questions of Interpretation 85

Kripke and Tait and the "Skeptical Paradox" of [section]201

The Depth of a Grammatical Joke

6. Where Philosophy Begins 101

'Urphilosophischeerfahrung'

'Forms of Life'

7. A Philosophical Comparison 123

Wittgenstein and Socrates: A Non-Ironic Comparison

Health, Truth, and Happiness: The Uses of Philosophical Ends

Socrates and His Method

Health and Following Rules

Transitional 5th Century Athens: Examples and Reminders

Ethics vs. Epistemology: A Divergence of Politico-Linguistic Directions

8. Philosophers and Irony 149

Socratic Teaching and Irony

9. After Wittgenstein 163

Quine, Rorty, and Deconstruction

Appendix The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy (Revisited) 175.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.

ISBN:

0739100092

OCLC:

40255912