Wittgenstein in America / edited by Timothy McCarthy and Sean C. Stidd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCarthy, Timothy (Timothy G.)

Stidd, Sean C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Congresses.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Influence.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Local Subjects:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Influence.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

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:

Two conceptions of Die Überwindung der Metaphysik: Carnap and early Wittgenstein / James Conant

The etiology of the obvious: Wittgenstein and the elimination of indeterminacy / Meredith Williams

The sense is where you find it / Lars Hertzberg

How long is the standard meter in Paris? / Cora Diamond

Was Wittgenstein really an anti-realist about mathematics? / Hilary Putnam

The expression of belief / Peter Winch

Wittgenstein's "Plan for the treatment of psychological concepts" / David H. Finkelstein

Morality, human understanding, and the limits of language / Ben Tilghman

The Investigations' everyday aesthetics of itself / Stanley Cavell.

Notes:

Based on a conference held in Sept. 1995 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-274) and index.

ISBN:

0199241597

OCLC:

45315309