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Informationen zum Autor G.P. Baker was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford from 1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co-author with P.M.S. Hacker of the first two volumes of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, 1980-96), and with Katherine Morris of Descartes' Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes. P.M.S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first two volumes co-authored with G.P. Baker, (Blackwell, 1980-96) and of Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). He has also written extensively on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, most recently The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), co-authored with M.R. Bennett. Klappentext Published to widespread acclaim between 1980 and 1996, the monumental four- volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations has become the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein's masterpiece. This revised edition of Volume I, Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, which itself comprises two parts ('Essays' and 'Exegesis §§1-184'), takes into account much material that was unavailable when the first edition was written. Following G.P. Baker's death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has thoroughly revised both parts, rewriting many sections completely and often proposing fresh interpretations. Part I: Essays now includes two new essays: 'Meaning and Use' and 'The Recantation of a Metaphysician', while Part II: Exegesis §§1-184 has been exhaustively reworked in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein's Nachlass. These revisions will ensure that this remains the essential reference work on the Philosophical Investigations for the foreseeable future. Zusammenfassung This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P. Baker and P.M.S. Hacker's definitive reference work on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. * New edition of the first volume of the monumental four--volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements xi Introduction to Part I: Essays xiii Abbreviations xix I The Augustinian conception of language ( 1) 1 1. Augustine's picture 1 2. The Augustinian family 4 (a) word-meaning 4 (b) correlating words with meanings 6 (c) ostensive explanation 7 (d) metapsychological corollaries 9 (e) sentence-meaning 11 3. Moving off in new directions 14 4. Frege 19 5. Russell 23 6. The Tractatus 26 II Explanation ( 6) 29 1. Training, teaching and explaining 29 2. Explanation and meaning 33 3. Explanation and grammar 35 4. Explanation and understanding 39 III The language-game method ( 7) 45 1. The emergence of the game analogy 45 2. An intermediate phase: comparisons with invented calculi 54 3. The emergence of the language-game method 57 4. Invented language-games 61 5. Natural language-games 63 IV Descriptions and the uses of sentences (?) 65 1. Flying in the face of the facts 65 2. Sentences as descriptions of facts: surface-grammatical paraphrase 67 3. Sentences as descriptions: depth-grammatical analysis and descriptive contents 70 4. Sentences as instruments 73 5. Assertions, questions, commands make contact in language 76 V Ostensive definition and its ramifications (?) 81 1. Connecting language and reality 81 2. The range and limits of ostensive explanations 83 3. The normativity of ostensive definition 88 4. Samples 9...
List of contents
Acknowledgements.
Introduction to Part 1 - the Essays.
Abbreviations.
I. THE AUGUSTINIAN CONCEPTION OF LANGUAGE (
1).
II. EXPLANATION (
6).
III. THE LANGUAGE-GAME METHOD (
7).
IV. DESCRIPTIONS AND THE USES OF SENTENCES (
18).
V. OSTENSIVE DEFINITION AND ITS RAMIFICATIONS (
28).
VI. INDEXICALS (
39).
VII. LOGICALLY PROPER NAMES (
39).
VIII. MEANING AND USE (
43).
IX. CONTEXTUAL DICTA AND CONTEXTUAL PRINCIPLES (
50).
X. THE STANDARD METRE (
50).
XI. FAMILY RESEMBLANCE (
65).
XII. PROPER NAMES (
79).
XIII. TURNING THE EXAMINATION AROUND: THE RECANTATION OF A METAPHYSICIAN (
89).
XIV. PHILOSOPHY (
109).
XV. SURVEYABILITY AND SURVEYABLE REPRESENTATIONS (
122).
XVI. TRUTH AND THE GENERAL PROPOSITIONAL FORM (
134).
XVII. UNDERSTANDING AND ABILITY (
143).
INDEX.
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--James Bogen
"Wittgenstein: Meaning and Understanding is a sort of compendium which I wouldn't want to do without. As a matter of fact, I cannot do without it, both in the sense that I need it to get all kinds of historical or philological information, as well as philosophical stimulation, and in the sense that I have become addicted to the book s magisterial way of bringing out and dealing with the difficulties of Wittgenstein's masterpiece."
--Joachim Schulte, University of Bielefeld
