Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein

This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein originally published between 1996 and 2019, with a new introduction. The essays defend and develop a central Wittgensteinian idea: 'grammatical rules' for the use of expressions hold the key to understanding linguistic meaning, as well as its connections to necessary propositions, conceptual thought, and the nature of philosophy.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Wittgenstein, Reason and Rules; Part I Norms and Necessity, Chapter 1 Necessity and Normativity; Chapter 2 Necessity and Language: In Defence of Conventionalism; Chapter 3 Does Language Require Conventions?; Chapter 4 Philosophy Rehinged?; Part II Thought and Concepts, Chapter 5 On Safari with Wittgenstein, Quine and Davidson ; Chapter 6 All Kinds of Nonsense; Chapter 7 Wittgenstein on Concepts; Chapter 8 Thought, Language and Animals; Part III Meaning and Philosophy, Chapter 9 What Is Meaning? A Wittgensteinian Answer to an Un-Wittgensteinian Question; Chapter 10 Philosophical Investigations Section 128: 'Theses in Philosophy' and Undogmatic Procedure; Chapter 11 Philosophy and Philosophical Method; Chapter 12 Unruly Wittgensteinians; Bibliography; Index of Names and Subjects

About the author

Dr. Hans-Johann Glock is a professor of philosophy at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), a Senior Advisor at the National Centre of Competence in Research 'Evolving Language' of the Swiss National Science Foundation and a recipient of a Humboldt Research Prize.

Summary

This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein originally published between 1996 and 2019, with a new introduction. The essays defend and develop a central Wittgensteinian idea: ‘grammatical rules’ for the use of expressions hold the key to understanding linguistic meaning, as well as its connections to necessary propositions, conceptual thought, and the nature of philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Hans-Johann Glock, Glock Hans-Johann
• Assisted by: Glock (Editor), Hans-Johann Glock (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781839983467
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-346-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, PHILOSOPHY / Methodology, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: logic, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism, New Wittgenstein' school