The new Wittgenstein

Routledge

2000

ix, 403 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-394) and index

9780415173186

Excursus on Wittgenstein's vision of language / Stanley Cavell Non-cognitivism and rule-following / John McDowell Wittgenstein on rules and platonism / David H. Finkelstein What 'There can be no such thing as meaning anything by any word' could possibly mean / Rupert Read Wittgenstein on deconstruction / Martin Stone Wittgenstein's philosophy in relation to political thought / Alice Crary Ethics, imagination and the method of Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Cora Diamond Elucidation and nonsense in Frege and early Wittgenstein / James Conant Rethinking mathematical necessity / Hilary Putnam Wittgenstein, mathematics and philosophy / Juliet Floyd Does Bismarck have a beetle in his box? The private language argument in the Tractatus / Cora Diamond How to do things with wood : Wittgenstein, Frege and the problem of illogical thought / David R. Cerbone Conceptions of nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein / Edward Witherspoon Was he trying to whistle it? / P.M.S. Hacker

Presenting a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein, these essays clarify his modes of philosophical criticism and shed light on the relation between his thought and different philosophical traditions and areas of human concern

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