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Format: 1 online resource (xiv, 515 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: Second edition.

ISBN: 1-108-54724-9 , 1-108-54834-2 , 1-316-34128-3

Series Statement: Cambridge companions

Content: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most important and influential philosophers in modern times, but he is also one of the least accessible. In this volume, leading experts chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between its different stages. The essays, which are both expository and original, address central themes in Wittgenstein's writing on a wide range of topics, particularly his thinking about the mind, language, logic, and mathematics. The contributors illuminate the character of the whole body of work by focusing on key topics: the style of the philosophy, the conception of grammar contained in it, rule-following, convention, logical necessity, the self, and what Wittgenstein called, in a famous phrase, 'forms of life'. This revised edition includes a new introduction, five new essays - on Tractarian ethics, Wittgenstein's development, aspects, the mind, and time and history - and a fully updated comprehensive bibliography.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Sep 2018). , Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction: Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Man, the Life, and the Work -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Notes -- 1 Wittgenstein's Critique of Philosophy -- I Introduction -- II Against Referentialism -- Names and Objects -- Expressing the Mental -- Logic and Mathematics -- III Logical Perfectionism -- Rules and Meaning -- The Indeterminacy of Rules -- The Underdetermination of Rules -- The Incoherence of Rules -- The Referential Counterparts of Rules -- Notes -- 2 Pictures, Logic, and the Limits of Sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus -- I The Old Logic -- II Russell's Multiple Relation Theory -- III The Conception of Sentences as Pictures -- IV Logical Interconnectedness -- V Throwing Away the Ladder -- Notes -- 3 Tractarian Ethics -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Notes -- 4 Wittgenstein in the 1930s -- I Introduction: The ''Middle Wittgenstein'' -- II The ''Middle Wittgenstein'' Revisited -- III Wittgenstein on Rule-Following in the 1930s and 1940s -- Notes -- 5 A Philosophy of Mathematics Between Two Camps -- I The Transition From Calculus to Language-Game -- II The Language-Game Conception -- III The Language-Game of Non-Revisability -- IV Dummett and ''Full-Blooded Conventionalism'' -- V The Nature of Contingency -- Notes -- 6 Necessity and Normativity -- I The Attack on ''Truth by Virtue of Meaning'' -- II The Web of Beliefs and the Fluctuation between Criteria and Symptoms -- III The Deep Need for the Convention -- Notes -- 7 Wittgenstein, Mathematics, and Ethics: Resisting -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- Appendix -- Notes -- 8 Notes and Afterthoughts On the Opening of Wittgenstein's Investigations -- I -- II -- Note. , 9 Mind, Meaning, and Practice -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- 10 Body and Soul -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- 11 The Question of Linguistic Idealism Revisited -- I The Idealist Reading -- II Linguistic Idealism -- III Wittgenstein and Hume -- IV Idealism or Materialism? -- V The Strategy of the Investigations -- VI How General is the Thesis? -- VII Normativity -- VIII Conventions and Institutions -- Notes -- 12 Aspects of Aspects -- Introduction -- I Themes -- 1.1 As- and Aspect-Phrasing -- 1.2 Characterization and ''Noticing an Aspect'' -- 1.3 Acquaintance -- II Evolution -- 2.1 Likenesses -- 2.2 Aspects in The Big Typescript -- 2.2.1 BT 2: '''Meaning' Used Amorphously'' -- 2.2.2 BT 74: Explanation of Generality by Examples -- 2.3 Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Part III -- Envoi -- Notes -- 13 Forms of Life: Mapping the Rough Ground -- I ''Neither Super-Idealized Guidance Nor Caprice'' -- II Privileged Marginality -- III ''Grief Describes a Pattern . . . in the Weave of our Life'' -- IV Toward a Diasporic Conception of Home -- V Conclusion -- Notes -- 14 Time and History in Wittgenstein -- I Introduction -- II Sub Specie Aeterni -- III Temporal Objects -- IV Language Unwinds in Time -- V The Contingency of History -- Notes -- 15 Certainties of a World Picture: The Epistemological Investigations of On Certainty -- I Knowledge and Certainty, Belonging to Different Categories -- II Life Forms and Their World-Picture -- III The Acquisition of Knowledge and Certainty via Training and Education -- IV Certainties as Norms -- V Truth and Idealism -- VI Understanding Other Cultures and the Possible Change of World-Pictures -- VII Skepticism -- VIII Objective and Subjective Certainty -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- 1 Primary Texts -- 1.1 Printed Texts (in Alphabetical Order) -- 1.2 Digital Resources. , 1.3 Lectures, Conversations, and Correspondence (in Alphabetical Order) -- 2 Secondary Texts -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-107-12025-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-107-54594-3

Language: English