Wittgenstein and His Interpreters

Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker
Herausgegeben von Kahane, Guy; Kanterian, Edward; Kuusela, Oskari

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Produktbeschreibung

Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the history and current trends as well as anticipating the future shape of work on Wittgenstein.
- The first collection of its kind, this volume presents a range of perspectives on the different approaches to the philosophy of Wittgenstein
- Written by leading experts from America, Britain, and Europe
- Provides a much needed overview of the complex landscape of Wittgenstein exegesis and Wittgensteinian approaches to philosophy
- Assesses the current state, aims, and future of Wittgenstein scholarship
- An essential guide for both students and scholars

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781118592601
• ISBN-10: 1118592603
• Artikelnr.: 38598348

Autorenporträt

Guy Kahane is Deputy Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He works mainly in moral philosophy. Kahane is also co-editor of Enhancing Human Capacities (2011). Edward Kanterian is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent. Previously he held a lectureship at Trinity College and Jesus College, Oxford. He works in theoretical philosophy and history of modern philosophy. He is the author of Analytic Philosophy (2004), Frege (2012) and has a forthcoming book on Kant's God. Oskari Kuusela is Senior Lecturer at School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Struggle Against Dogmatism: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy (2008) and Key Terms in Ethics (2011) as well as the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgements xi List of Abbreviations xii
Introduction 1 Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and Oskari Kuusela 1
Perspectives on Wittgenstein: An Intermittently 37 Opinionated Survey
Hans-Johann Glock 2 Wittgenstein's Method: Ridding People of 66
Philosophical Prejudices Katherine Morris 3 Gordon Baker's Late
Interpretation of Wittgenstein 88 P. M. S. Hacker 4 The Interpretation of
the Philosophical Investigations: 123 Style, Therapy, Nachlass Alois
Pichler 5 Ways of Reading Wittgenstein: Observations on 145 Certain Uses of
the Word 'Metaphysics' Joachim Schulte 6 Metaphysical/Everyday Use: A Note
on a Late 169 Paper by Gordon Baker Hilary Putnam 7 Wittgenstein and
Transcendental Idealism 174 A. W. Moore 8 Simples and the Idea of Analysis
in the Tractatus 200 Marie McGinn 9 Words, Waxing and Waning: Ethics
in/and/of the 221 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Stephen Mulhall 10 The
Uses of Wittgenstein's Beetle: Philosophical 248 Investigations §293 and
Its Interpreters David G. Stern 11 Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist? The
Reception 269 of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics Ray Monk 12
Wittgenstein and Ethical Naturalism 295 Alice Crary Bibliography 320 Name
Index 345 Subject Index 350

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