Wittgenstein and the philosophy of mind / edited by Jonathan Ellis and Daniel Guevara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Jonathan, editor.

Guevara, Daniel., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Congresses.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Philosophy of mind--Congresses.

Philosophy of mind.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xli, 309 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the essays collected here, some of the most influential figures in contemporary philosophy discuss the significance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the mind.

Contents:

Foreword : on getting to know a state or process better : Wittgenstein and the philosophy of mind / David Hills

Introduction / Jonathan Ellis and Daniel Guevara

1. Meaning and understanding / Barry Stroud

2. Seeing an aspect and seeing under an aspect / Brian O'Shaughnessy

3. Wittgenstein on the role of experience in understanding language / John Campbell

4. Rule-following revisited

5. The private language argument one more time / Robert J. Fogelin

6. Rules, privacy, and physicalism / Jim Hopkins

7. Conceiving of conscious states / Christopher Peacocke

8. Sensation, introspection, and the phenomenal / Jonathan Ellis

9. Das Überraschende : Wittgenstein on the surprising in mathematics / Juliet Floyd

10. Pain : a philosophical borderland / Claude Imbert

11. Wittgenstein's philosophy of psychology : methodological reflections / P.M.S. Hacker.

Notes:

Based on a conference held in June 2007 at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 30, 2012).

ISBN:

1-283-59745-4

9786613909909

0-19-992117-2

OCLC:

809667150