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Subject(s)

• Philosophy [Browse]
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951 [Browse]

Editor

• Kuusela, Oskari [Browse]
• McGinn, Marie [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks. [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Abbreviations of Wittgenstein's works
• PART I: INTRODUCTION
• Editors' Introduction
• 1. Wittgenstein and Biography
• PART II: LOGIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
• 2. Wittgenstein Reads Russell
• 3. Assertion, Saying, and Propositional Complexity in Wittgenstein's
• 4. Wittgenstein and Frege
• 5. Wittgenstein and Infinity
• 6. Wittgenstein on Mathematics
• 7. Wittgenstein on Surveyability of Proofs
• 8. From Logical Method to 'Messing About': Wittgenstein on 'Open Problems' in Mathematics
• PART III: PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
• 9. The Proposition's Progress
• 10. Logical Atomism in Russell and Wittgenstein
• 11. The Tractatus and the Limits of Sense
• 12. The Life of the Sign: Rule-following, Practice, and Agreement
• 13. Meaning and Understanding
• 14. Wittgenstein and Idealism
• 15. Private Language
• 16. Very General Facts of Nature
• PART IV: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
• 17. Wittgenstein on the First Person
• 18. Private Experience and Sense Data
• 19. Privacy
• 20. Action and the Will
• 21. Wittgenstein on Criteria and the Problem of Other Minds
• 22. Wittgenstein on the Experience of Meaning and Secondary Use
• PART V: EPISTEMOLOGY
• 23. Wittgenstein on Scepticism
• 24. Wittgenstein and Moore
• 25. Wittgenstein on Intuition, Rule-following, and Certainty: Exchanges with Brouwer and Russell
• PART VI: METHOD
• 26. The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
• 27. Wittgenstein's Methods
• 28. Grammar in the Philosophical Investigations
• 29. Wittgenstein's Use of Examples
• 30. Aspect Perception and Philosophical Difficulty
• 31. Writing Philosophy as Poetry: Literary Form in Wittgenstein
• 32. Wittgenstein and the Moral Dimension of Philosophical Problems
• PART VII: RELIGION, AESTHETICS, ETHICS
• 33. Wittgenstein on Religious Belief.
• 34. Wittgenstein on Aesthetics
• 35. Wittgenstein and Ethics
• Index.

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ISBN

0-19-173529-9

OCLC

774729012

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