A Companion to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations / Garth Hallett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hallett, Garth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Philosophische Untersuchungen.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"One of the most impressive pieces of scholarship I have ever encountered."-W. E. Kennick, Amherst CollegeThere is nothing in the literature on the Philosophical Investigations comparable to this learned and exhaustive commentary. Offering both information and interpretation, it is a remarkable book that fills a recognized need for a close study of one of the world's major works of philosophy.After a general introduction, Father Hallett divides the text of the Investigations into forty-one units, and then provides an introduction to each section, along with detailed comments on individual paragraphs, statements, and expressions. His use of paragraph numbers in the general introduction and in the sectional introductions permits ready reference downward, for detailed development or illustration of a general observation, or upward, from a particular passage to its wider context.To clarify the philosophical point of Wittgenstein's remarks, Father Hallett makes frequent references to other parts of the Investigations; to Wittgenstein's other writings, both published and unpublished; and to the works which Wittgenstein knew and often had in mind, such as those of Frege, Russell, Moore, James, Augustine, Plato, Schlick, and Kohler.Father Hallett also cites and "es secondary sources, and he includes an appendix relating Wittgenstein to more than 150 authors, particularly those of his own generation or earlier whom he read, or knew personally, and who are mentioned in this commentary.Written in straightforward and lucid prose, this outstanding book reveals continuities in Wittgenstein's thought over long periods of time. It is an indispensable guide for those preparing courses on the Investigations and a useful tool for students taking those courses.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS

NOTE ON REFERENCES

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

COMMENTARY

THE TITLE

THE MOTTO

THE PREFACE

I. The Overture: Language as a Game (§§1-25)

II. Naming (§§26-38)

III. Names and Their Meanings (§§39-64)

IV. Twin Myths: Essence and Precision (§§65-78)

V. Critique of the "Calculus according to Definite Rules" (§§79-88)

VI. The Confessions of a Logical Atomist (§§89-108)

VII. Philosophy as Therapy (§§109-133)

VIII. The "General Form of Propositions" (§§134-137)

IX. Rules "in the Medium of the Understanding" (§§138-242)

X. The Problem of Privacy (§§243-315)

XI. Thinking (§§316-362)

XII. "Each Equivalent to Each" (§§363-397)

XIII. The I (§§398-411)

XIV. Consciousness (§§412-427)

XV. The Agreement of Thought with Reality (§§428-465)

XVI. Bedrock: "This Game Is Played" (§§466-497)

XVII. The Sense of a Sentence (§§498-517)

XVIII. Propositions and Pictures (§§518-524)

XIX. Different Uses of Understand and Meaning (§§525-546)

XX. Negation (§§547-557)

XXI. Word Meanings (§§558-570)

XXII. States: Belief, Hope, Expectation (§§571-587)

XXIII. On Explaining Thought through Feelings (§§588-610)

XXIV. Willing (§§611-628)

XXV. Intention, and the Prediction of One's Own Actions (§§629-660)

XXVI. Meaning Something, Someone (§§661-693)

XXVII. Emotions (P. 174)

XXVIII. Momentary Meanings in the Mind (Pp. 175-176)

XXIX. The Reference of Images (P. 177)

XXX. Belief in the Soul (P. 178)

XXXI. What Psychology Treats (Pp. 179-180)

XXXII. Feelings Are Not Meanings (Pp. 181-183)

XXXIII. Dreaming (P. 184)

XXXIV. "Kinaesthetic Sensations" (Pp. 185-186)

XXXV. Expressions of Emotion (Pp. 187-189)

XXXVI. Moore's Paradox (Pp. 190-192)

XXXVII. Aspect Seeing and the Second Sense of Meaning (Pp. 193-219)

XXXVIII. The Picture of Complete Seclusion (Pp. 220-229)

XL. Remembering Has No Experiential Content (P. 231)

XLI. Conceptual Confusion in Psychology and Mathematics (P. 232)

APPENDIX: AUTHORS WITTGENSTEIN KNEW OR READ

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781501743405

1501743406

OCLC:

1110713586