Essays after Wittgenstein / J.F.M. Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, J.F.M., author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Psychology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1973]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Written within the tradition of Wittgenstein's work, these eight original essays in philosophical psychology are either by-products of efforts to understand Wittgenstein's later writings or applications of techniques and approaches derived from Wittgenstein to problems about which he did not say a great deal. In much of his later writings, Wittgenstein was not so much trying to explain his own views as to tease, annoy, and confuse the reader into working our for himself solutions to some philosophical problems. Professor Hunter, goaded and guided by Wittgenstein, here presents in clear and plain prose the views that he has worked out on a number of different questions. Although the essays are not exegetical in form, they will be found by students of the great philosopher to contain a large number of novel suggestions as to how Wittgenstein might be interpreted; philosophers, psychologists, linguists, and mathematicians are offered an unconventional, interesting, and richly argued approach to some of the main problems in philosophical psychology. The essays treat Meaning, Telling, Pain, Logical Compulsion, Identity, Imagining, Dreaming, and Talking. One eminent scholar has predicted that this volume may reverse the present tendency of philosophers to follow the lead of Noam Chomsky in the philosophy of language.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

How do you mean?

Personal identity

Imagining

Some questions about dreaming

Telling

The concept of pain

On how we talk

Logical compulsion

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9781487590376

1487590377

9781487599768

1487599765

OCLC:

1013494222