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The Routledge guidebook to Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations / Marie McGinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGinn, Marie, author.
- Series:
- The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
- Routledge guides to the great books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Philosophische Untersuchungen.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
- Philosophy.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition. In his Philosophical Investigations he undertakes a radical critique of analytical philosophy's approach to both the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations introduces and assesses:Wittgenstein's lifeThe principal ideas of the Philosophical InvestigationsSome of the principal disputes concerning the interpretation of his workWittgenstein's philosophi
- Contents:
- Front Cover; The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's preface; Preface to the second edition; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Style and method; Introduction; The idea of grammatical investigation; The rejection of philosophical theories; Philosophy as therapy; ' ... the philosophical problems should completely disappear'; References and further reading; 2. Wittgenstein's critique of Augustine; Introduction; 'Five red apples'; 'Block!', 'Pillar!', 'Slab!', 'Beam!'; Meaning and use; Ostensive definition
- Everything lies open to viewReferences and further reading; 3. Rules and rule-following; Introduction; Kripke on Wittgenstein and rule-following; Responses to Kripke: Wright versus McDowell; The connection between meaning and use; Meaning and understanding; The connection between a rule and its application; The logical 'must'; References and further reading; 4. Privacy and private language; Introduction; The idea of a private language; Our ordinary sensation language; The private language argument; The role of private ostensive definition in our ordinary sensation language
- References and further reading5. The inner and the outer; Introduction; Pain and pain-behaviour; The idea of the private object; The indeterminacy of our psychological language-game; Pain is not a something, but not a nothing either; Criteria; References and further reading; 6. Intentionality: thinking, imagining, believing; Introduction; Thinking; Thought and language; Speaking to oneself; Imagining; '"I" is not a name'; Believing: Moore's Paradox; References and further reading; 7. Intentionality: thinking, expecting, intending; Introduction; Thought: the harmony between thought and reality
- Thought: catching reality in its netWishing and expecting; Intending; References and further reading; 8. Seeing and seeing aspects; Introduction; The visual room; Seeing and seeing-as; Seeing and describing what you see; References and further reading; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Edition statement from preface.
- Rev. ed. of: Routledge philosophy guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical investigations.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-17069-3
- 1-136-17063-4
- 0-203-08095-5
- 1-299-15631-2
- 1-136-17070-7
- 9780203080955
- OCLC:
- 828298778
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