The Oxford handbook of Wittgenstein / edited by Oskari Kuusela and Marie McGinn.

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Book
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English
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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1 online resource (xiii, 824 pages) : illustrations.

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Since the middle of the 20th century Ludwig Wittgenstein has been an exceptionally influential and controversial figure wherever philosophy is studied. This is a comprehensive volume on Wittgenstein where 35 scholars explore the whole range of his thought, offering critical engagement and original interpretation.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Editors' introduction / Oskari Kuusela, Marie McGinn
  • Wittgenstein and biography / Brian McGuinness
  • Logic and the philosophy of mathematics
  • Wittgenstein reads Russell / Gregory Landini
  • Assertion, saying, and propositional complexity in Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Colin Johnston
  • Wittgenstein and Frege / Wolfgang Kienzler
  • Wittgenstein and infinity / A.W. Moore
  • Wittgenstein on mathematics / Michael Potter
  • Wittgenstein on surveyability of proofs / Matthieu Marion
  • From logical method to 'messing about': Wittgenstein on 'open problems' in mathematics / Simo Säätelä
  • Philosophy of language
  • The proposition's progress / Charles Travis
  • Logical atomism in Russell and Wittgenstein / Ian Proops
  • The tractatus and the limits of sense / Cora Diamond
  • The life of the sign : rule-following, practice, and agreement / Edward Minar
  • Meaning and understanding / Barry Stroud
  • Wittgenstein and idealism / David R. Cerbone
  • Private language / David Stern
  • Very general facts of nature / Lars Hertzberg
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Wittgenstein on the first person / William Child
  • Private experience and sense data / Paul Snowdon
  • Privacy / Joachim Schulte
  • Action and the will / John Hyman
  • Wittgenstein on criteria and the problem of other minds / Edward Witherspoon
  • Wittgenstein on the experience of meaning and secondary use / Michel ter Hark
  • Epistemology
  • Wittgenstein on scepticism / Duncan Pritchard
  • Wittgenstein and Moore / Thomas Baldwin
  • Wittgenstein on intuition, rule-following, and certainty : exchanges with Brouwer and Russell / Kim van Gennip
  • Method
  • The development of Wittgenstein's philosophy / Oskari Kuusela
  • Wittgenstein's methods / James Conant
  • Grammar in the philosophical investigations / Marie McGinn
  • Wittgenstein's use of examples / Beth Savickey
  • Aspect perception and philosophical difficulty / Avner Baz
  • Writing philosophy as poetry : literary form in Wittgenstein / Marjorie Perloff
  • Wittgenstein and the moral dimension of philosophical problems / Joel Backström
  • Religion, aesthetics, ethics
  • Wittgenstein on religious belief / Stephen Mulhall
  • Wittgenstein on aesthetics / Malcolm Budd
  • Wittgenstein and ethics / Anne-Marie S. Christensen.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of Wittgenstein
  • Wittgenstein
ISBN
  • 9780191735295
  • 0191735299
OCLC
774729012
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