Wittgenstein on Other Minds - Strangers in a Strange Land

This book brings together Constantine Sandis's essays on Wittgenstein's approach to understanding others.

List of contents

Preface ;  Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations of Wittgenstein's Works ; Introduction: The Mental Lives of Others ; 1 'If Some People Looked Like Elephants and Others Like Cats': Wittgenstein on Understanding Others and Forms of Life ; 2 Making Ourselves Understood: Wittgenstein and Moral Epistemology ; 3 Who Are 'We' for Wittgenstein? ; 4 Understanding the Lion for Real ; 5 On Safari with Glock ; 6 Understanding Other Cultures (Without Mind-Reading) ; 7 Period and Place: Wittgenstein and Collingwood on Understanding Others ; 8 One Fell Swoop: Small Red Book Historicism Before and After Davidson ; 9 If an Artwork Could Speak: Aesthetic Understanding After Wittgenstein ; 10 Wittgenstein and Communication Technology: In Conversation with Richard Harper ; References ; Index

About the author

Constantine Sandis is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and a founding director of Lex Academic.

Product details

• Authors: Constantine Sandis
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781839986703
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-670-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism, exegesis; essays; Wittgenstein