Wittgenstein – Understanding and Meaning – Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essays 2e
Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essays
Samenvatting
This is a much revised and extended new edition of
Part I of the first volume of the monumental four–volume
Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations.
Takes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was written
Following Baker s death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has rewritten many essays completely
Part I: Essays now includes two completely new essays: ′Meaning and Use′ and ′The Recantation of a Metaphysician′; the essays: The Augustinian Conception of Language , The Language–Game Method , Contextual Dicta and Contextual Principles , Philosophy , Surveyability and Surveyable Representations , and Truth and the General Propositional Form are redrafted and expanded, incorporating new source materials and new arguments, as well as taking into account debates of the last quarter of a century
The accompanying Part II: Exegesis §§1–184 – has been thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein s Nachlass, and includes many new interpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of the Philosophical Investigations and an overview of its structure.
The revisions will ensure that this remains the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein s masterpiece for the foreseeable future
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Introduction to Part I: Essays.</p>
<p>Note to the paperback edition 2009.</p>
<p>Abbreviations.</p>
<p>I The Augustinian conception of language (§1).</p>
<p>II Explanation (§6).<br /> </p>
<p>III The language–game method (§7).</p>
<p>IV Descriptions and the uses of sentences (§18).</p>
<p>V Ostensive definition and its ramifications (§28).</p>
<p>VI Indexicals (§39).</p>
<p>VII Logically proper names (§39).</p>
<p>VIII Meaning and use (§43).</p>
<p>IX Contextual dicta and contextual principles (§50).</p>
<p>X The standard metre (§50).</p>
<p>XI Family resemblance (§65).</p>
<p>XII Proper names (§79).</p>
<p>XIII Turning the inquiry round: the recantation of a metaphysician (§89).</p>
<p>XIV Philosophy (§109).</p>
<p>XV Surveyability and surveyable representations (§122).<br /> </p>
<p>XVI Truth and the general propositional form (§134).</p>
<p>XVII Understanding and ability (§143).</p>
<p>1. The place of the elucidation of understanding in the Investigations.</p>
<p>2. Meaning and understanding as the soul of signs.</p>
<p>3. Categorial misconceptions of understanding.</p>
<p>4. Categorial clarification.</p>
<p>(a) Understanding is not an experience.</p>
<p>(b) Understanding is not a process.</p>
<p>(c) Understanding is not a mental state.</p>
<p>(d) Understanding is neither a dispositional state of the brain nor a disposition.</p>
<p>5. Powers and abilities.</p>
<p>6. Understanding and ability.</p>
<p>Index.</p>