Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies

Zusatztext Review from previous edition the standard interpretation of Wittgenstein ... can be attributed to a large extent to the interpretive work of P.M.S. Hacker. Klappentext Focusing on diverse aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophy! this volume not only provides a valuable introduction! but also investigates connections between the philosophy of Wittgenstein! other philosophers--in particular! Frege! Frazer! Carnap! and Strawson--and philosophical trends. It also illuminates very different aspects of Wittgenstein's thought! probing into the controversies it stimulates! as well as into its influence. Zusammenfassung These essays on different aspects of the philosophy of Wittgenstein offer an overview followed by essays which: investigate connections between the philosophy of Wittgenstein and other philosophers or philosophical trends over the last two decades, have raged over the interpretation of one aspect or another of Wittgenstein's writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Wittgenstein -- an Overview 2: Wittgenstein and the Autonomy of Humanistic Understanding 3: Developmental Hypotheses and Perspicuous Representations: Wittgenstein on Frazer's Golden Bough Postscript 4: Was he Trying to Whistle it? 5: When the Whistling had to Stop 6: Naming, Thinking, and Meaning in the Tractatus Postscript 7: Frege and the Early Wittgenstein 8: Frege and the Later Wittgenstein 9: P. M. S. Hacker and G. P. Baker: Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: The Exaltation and Deposition of Ostensive Definition 10: P. M. S. Hacker and G. P. Baker: On Misunderstanding Wittgenstein: Kripke's Private Language Argument 11: P. M. S. Hacker and G. P. Baker: Malcolm on Language and Rules 12: On Carnap's Elimination of Metaphysics 13: On Strawson's Rehabilitation of Metaphysics Index

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• Authors: P. M. S Hacker, P. M. S ( Hacker, P. M. S. Hacker
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2004
• EAN: 9780199271139
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927113-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, HISTORY / Social History, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism