A companion to Wittgenstein / edited by Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glock, Hans-Johann, 1960- editor.

Hyman, John, editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 63.

Blackwell Companions to Philosophy ; 63.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (903 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

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Summary:

A COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein's thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by leading interpreters of his philosophy is a keynote addition to the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series. Full of penetrating insights into the life and work of the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, the collection explores the full range of Wittgenstein's contribution to philosophy. It includes essays on his intellectual development, his work in logic and mathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, and much else. As well as examining Wittgenstein's contribution to human understanding in detail, the Companion features vital contextual analysis that traces the relationship between his ideas and those of other philosophers and schools of thought, including the Aristotelian and continental philosophical traditions. Authors also address prominent themes that remain current in today's philosophical debates, explaining Wittgenstein's continuing legacy alongside his historical significance. Essential reading for scholars of philosophy at all levels, A Companion to Wittgenstein combines engaging commentary with unrivaled academic authority.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Wittgenstein's Published Works in Order of Composition

Lectures and Conversations

Anthologies and Collections

Works Derived from Dictations by, or Conversations with, Wittgenstein

Correspondence

Nachlass

Introduction

Ludwig Wittgenstein

References

Further Reading

Part I: Introductory

1 Wittgenstein's Philosophical Development

1 Some Basic Features of Wittgenstein's Work

2 The Early Work

3 Thinking about Wittgenstein's Development

4 The Transformation

5 The Typescripts and Revisions

2 Wittgenstein's Texts and Style

1 Internalism and Externalism about Style and Method

2 Identifying Texts and Works

3 Identifying Voices in the Text

Part II: Influences

3 Wittgenstein and Schopenhauer

1 Early and Later Wittgenstein

2 Schopenhauer's Influence on the Early Wittgenstein

3 Schopenhauerian Perceptible Sign and Transcendent Symbol

4 Transcendent Tractatus Logic and Semantics

5 Transcendence of Convergent Ethical‐Aesthetic Value

6 Later Anti‐Schopenhauerian Anti‐Transcendental Antipode

4 Wittgenstein and Frege

1 Introduction

2 Wittgenstein's Relationship with Frege

3 Frege and Wittgenstein's Early Work

4 Frege and Wittgenstein's Later Work

5 Conclusion

5 Wittgenstein and Russell

2 Russellian Background

3 The Multiple‐Relation Theory of Judgment

4 The Narrow Direction Problem (ND)

5 The Wide Direction Problem (WD)

6 Wittgenstein's Objection and Russell's Paralysis

7 Direct Inspection and the MRTJ (First Problem with EI)

8 The Logical Status of the Subordinate Relation (Second Problem with EI).

9 Solution to these two Problems: OI

10 Propositional Functions

11 Wittgenstein on Logical Form

12 Conclusion

6 Wittgenstein, Hertz, and Boltzmann

2 Boltzmann and Hertz

3 Wittgenstein's Knowledge of Boltzmann and Hertz

4 Hertz and His Mechanics

5 The Picture Conception of Language

6 Wittgenstein's Way of Reading Hertz's Mechanics

7 Hertz's Influence on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy

8 Boltzmann

9 Concluding Remarks

Part III: Early Philosophy

7 Logical Atomism

1 The Tractarian Logical Atomism

2 The Possibility of Complete Analysis

3 Some Recent Interpretations of the Substance Argument

4 The Substance Argument

8 The Picture Theory

2 The Identity of Fact and Sense

3 The Priority of Sense (i)

4 The Priority of Sense (ii)

5 The Expression of a Sense (i)

6 The Expression of a Sense (ii)

7 The Expression of a Sense (iii)

8 Truth as the Given

9 Wittgenstein on Solipsism

1 The Impact of Schopenhauer

2 Wittgenstein on Solipsism in the Tractatus

3 Wittgenstein on Solipsism in the "Blue Book"

4 Critique of Solipsism and the Self that Takes Responsibility for a Judgment

10 Resolute Readings of the Tractatus

2 The Original Concept of a Resolute Reading

3 Two Sorts of Criticism of "Resolute Readings"

4 Shedding the First Two Logical Features

5 Shedding the Third Logical Feature

6 Conclusion

11 Ineffability and Nonsense in the Tractatus

1 The Orthodox Reading of the Tractatus

2 The First Criticism and Responses

3 The Second Criticism and Responses.

4 The Third Criticism and a Simple Response

5 The Fourth Criticism and Responses

6 The Resolute Reading as an Unorthodox Reading of the Tractatus

7 The Strong and Weak Resolute Readings

8 Criticisms and Comments

12 Metaphysics

1 Metaphysics

2 The Master‐Problems of the Tractatus

3 Ontology, Metaphysics of Symbolism, and the Truths of Logic

4 Ineffability and Expressibility

5 A Digression into Postmodernist Austerity and Resoluteness

6 From Metalogic to Grammar

7 From Metaphysics to Grammar

8 High Metaphysics Brought Low

Part IV: Philosophy and Grammar

13 Philosophy and Philosophical Method

1 Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy and the Cognitivist Mainstream

3 The Later Work

14 Grammar and Grammatical Statements

1 Grammar: The Rules of Language

2 The Autonomy of Grammar

3 From Rules to Norms

4 Rules of Grammar and the Discussion of Rule‐Following

5 Grammatical Statements and Analytic Truths

6 Mathematics as Grammar

15 The Autonomy of Grammar

1 Grammar

2 The Autonomy or Arbitrariness of Grammar

3 A Sense in which Grammar is NOT Autonomous or Arbitrary

4 Concluding Remarks

16 Surveyability

1 A Letter

2 The Manuscript Version of PI 122

3 Spengler

4 Intermediate Links

5 Principles of Organization

6 PI 122

Part V: Logic and Mathematics

17 Logic and the Tractatus

1 The Truths of Logic as Tautologies

2 That the Logical Constants Do Not Stand for Anything

3 Why Only One Logical Constant?

4 The N‐Operator and the General Form of Proposition

5 The Propositions of Logic as Tautologies and the Decision Problem.

References

18 Wittgenstein's Early Philosophyof Mathematics

2 Mathematics, Thought, Assertoric Content: Tractatus

3 Mathematical Propositions: Sense, Proof, Method of Checking

19 Wittgenstein's Later Philosophyof Mathematics

2 Wittgenstein's Precept that Philosophy Leaves Everything (Including Mathematics) as it is, and his Distinction between Calculus and Prose

3 Concerns about the Distinction between Calculus and Prose

4 One Way to Meet these Concerns

5 Renewed Concerns about the Distinction between Calculus and Prose

6 An Issue about the Application of Mathematics

20 Wittgenstein and Antirealism

2 Dummett's Antirealism and Wittgenstein

3 Quietism and Anti‐Antirealism

4 Deflationism, Minimalism, and Quasi‐Realism

21 Necessity and Apriority

1 Necessity's Dual Source

2 Color Exclusion

3 Language as Calculus

4 Conceptual Roles

5 Criteria and Symptoms

6 Measures and Language‐Games

Part VI: Language

22 Names and Ostensive Definitions

1 Ostensive Definitions of Proper Names

2 Reference and Meaning of Proper Names

3 Verbal Explanations of Proper Names

4 Ostensive Definitions of Predicates

5 Samples Belong to the Symbolism

6 Meaning and Reference of Predicates

7 The Tractarian Doctrines about Names and Naming

23 Meaning and Understanding

1 Beyond Normativity

2 The Guidance Conception of Understanding

3 Mind as Mechanism

4 Mechanism and Guidance

5 Rationality and Guidance

6 Kripke on Rationality and Guidance

24 Rules and Rule‐Following.

1 A Mental Picture of a Cube Guides My Application of "Cube"

2 The Parable of the Wayward Child

3 The Rule‐Following Paradox

4 Guidance Without Mystery?

5 Critical Reception of Wittgenstein's Investigations of the Concept of a Rule

25 Vagueness and Family Resemblance

26 Languages, Language‐Games, and Forms of Life

2 Objects of Comparison

3 Languages as Involving Games

4 (Forms of) Life(‐Forms)

5 Context(ualism)

6 This Is Here

7 I Know That That's a Tree

8 A Rose is Red in the Dark

9 Conclusion

27 Wittgenstein on Truth

1 Truth and the Picture Theory

2 The Analysis of "'p' is true"

3 The Metaphysics of Truth

4 The Later Wittgenstein

Part VII: Mind and Action

28 Privacy and Private Language

1 Preliminary

2 The Traditional Picture

3 The Possibility of a Private Language (PI 239, 243)

4 The Replacement Model (PI 244-5)

5 Two Senses of Privacy

6 Private Ownership: Numerical and Qualitative Identity (PI 253)

7 Private Ownership and Spatial Specifications of Sensations

8 Private Ownership and Temporal Specifications of Sensations

9 Dependent Particulars?

10 Epistemic Privacy: Wittgenstein's Main Argument (PI 246, 248)

11 Epistemic Privacy: Meaningful Uses

12 Epistemic Privacy: Lying About Inner Processes, and Logical Transformations

13 Epistemic Privacy: Reporting that One is in Pain

14 Epistemic Privacy: Grammatical Uses

15 Knowledge of Other Minds (281, 283f, 289f, 293f, 302, 350)

16 Private Ostensive Definition (PI 256-8, 261, 265, 270, 293)

29 The Inner and the Outer

1 The Inner-Outer Picture

2 Avowal, Expression, and Self‐Ascription.

3 The Relation between "Inner" Mental States and "Outer" Behavior.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118884607

9781118641477

1118641477

9781118641484

1118641485

OCLC:

967890033