G. P. Baker, P. M. S. Hacker

Wittgenstein 2e

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an extensively revised second edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity, the second volume of Baker and Hacker's renowned analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. Comprising both detailed exegesis and interpretative essays, this edition includes comprehensively revised coverage of some of the most important and widely discussed passages in Wittgenstein's entire writings. Insightful and thought-provoking, the second edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity constitutes a key contribution to the ongoing analysis of one of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century.

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The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules.

Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following
Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein's conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity
Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass
Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781118854594
• ISBN-10: 1118854594
• Artikelnr.: 40552320

Autorenporträt

G. P. Baker was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford from 1967 until his death in 2002. P. M. S. Hacker is an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Authors ix Acknowledgements x Introduction to Volume 2 xii
Abbreviations xvi ANALYTICAL COMMENTARY 1 I Two fruits upon one tree 3 1.
The continuation of the Early Draft into philosophy of mathematics 3 2.
Hidden isomorphism 7 3. A common methodology 12 4. The flatness of
philosophical grammar 19 FOLLOWING A RULE §§185-242 23 Introduction to the
exegesis 25 II Rules and grammar 41 1. The Tractatus and rules of logical
syntax 41 2. From logical syntax to philosophical grammar 43 3. Rules and
rule-formulations 46 4. Philosophy and grammar 55 5. The scope of grammar
59 6. Some morals 65 Exegesis §§185-8 68 III Accord with a rule 81 1.
Initial compass bearings 81 2. Accord and the harmony between language and
reality 83 3. Rules of inference and logical machinery 88 4. Formulations
and explanations of rules by examples 90 5. Interpretations, fitting and
grammar 93 6. Further misunderstandings 95 Exegesis §§189-202 98 IV
Following rules, mastery of techniques, and practices 135 1. Following a
rule 135 2. Practices and techniques 140 3. Doing the right thing and doing
the same thing 145 4. Privacy and the community view 149 5. On not digging
below bedrock 156 V Private linguists and 'private linguists' - Robinson
Crusoe sails again 157 1. Is a language necessarily shared with a community
of speakers? 157 2. Innate knowledge of a language 158 3. Robinson Crusoe
sails again 160 4. Solitary cavemen and monologuists 163 5. Private
languages and 'private languages' 165 6. Overview 166 Exegesis §§203-37 169
VI Agreement in definitions, judgements and forms of life 211 1. The
scaffolding of facts 211 2. The role of our nature 215 3. Forms of life 218
4. Agreement: consensus of human beings and their actions 223 Exegesis
§§238-42 231 VII Grammar and necessity 241 1. Setting the stage 241 2.
Leitmotifs 245 3. External guidelines 258 4. Necessary propositions and
norms of representation 262 5. Concerning the truth and falsehood of
necessary propositions 270 6. What necessary truths are about 280 7.
Illusions of correspondence: ideal objects, kinds of reality and
ultra-physics 283 8. The psychology and epistemology of the a priori 289
(i) Knowledge 289 (ii) Belief 291 (iii) Certainty 294 (iv) Surprise 298 (v)
Discoveries and conjectures 300 (vi) Compulsion 305 9. Propositions of
logic and laws of thought 308 10. Alternative forms of representation 320
11. The arbitrariness of grammar 332 12. A kinship to the non-arbitrary 338
13. Proof in mathematics 345 14. Conventionalism 356 Index 371

Rezensionen

"The authors showed in the first volume that they had in full measure the combination of scholarship and philosophical excellence needed to expound and illuminate the intricacies of the text. That combination is apparent on every page of the present work."
--Bede Rundle, Philosophical Investigations

"This second volume has all the scholarly virtues of its predecessor. It is imbued with massive learning. The exegeses are accurate. The essays usefully distinguish the different threads in Wittgenstein's discussion; they explicate the most significant of the relevant concepts, and they explain the philosophical importance of the issues involved."
--Malcolm Budd, Philosophical Books