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These papers develop, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgenstein's treatment of mind and language. The approach is distinctive in giving central place to the individual's relations with others in a way that involves detailed attention to the human bodily form and to conversation, and a significant ethical dimension.
List of contents
Preface; Introduction; Part One Human Beings; Chapter One The Mind, the Brain and the Face; Chapter Two Commitment to Persons; Chapter Three Deirdre's Smile: Names, Faces and 'the Simple Actuality' of Another; Chapter Four 'Only of a Living Human Being'; Chapter Five Responsibility and Necessity; Part Two Wittgenstein; Chapter Six Meaning, Rules and Conversation; Chapter Seven 'Not Empiricism and Yet Realism'; Chapter Eight 'In the Beginning Was the Deed'; Chapter Nine Rush Rhees: The Reality of Discourse; Part Three Conversation; Chapter Ten Trust in Conversation; Chapter Eleven Ethics and Language: What We Owe to Speakers; Chapter Twelve A Study of Language in Primates; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
David Cockburn Is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales, Trinity St David. He is the author of books on philosophy of mind and philosophy of time, and of papers on Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, time, religion, language and ethics.
Summary
These papers develop, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgenstein’s treatment of mind and language. The approach is distinctive in giving central place to the individual’s relations with others in a way that involves detailed attention to the human bodily form and to conversation, and a significant ethical dimension.
