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

Wittgenstein (eBook, PDF)

Rules, Grammar and Necessity: Volume 2 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Essays and Exegesis §§185-242

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Produktbeschreibung

The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar andNecessity (the second volume of the landmark analyticalcommentary on Wittgenstein's PhilosophicalInvestigations) now includes extensively revised andsupplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex andcontroversial remarks on following rules. * Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of onenew essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions ofrule-following * Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein'sconception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity * Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result oftaking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of theNachlass * Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-followingthat have raged over the past 20 years

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 03.11.2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444315707
• Artikelnr.: 37364719

Autorenporträt

G. P. Baker was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford from 1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co-author with P.M.S. Hacker of the first two volumes of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, 1980-96), author of Wittgenstein, Frege and the Vienna Circle (Blackwell, 1988) and, with Katherine Morris, of Descartes' Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes. P. M. S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first two volumes co-authored with G.P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980-96) and of Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). His recent works include The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), both co-authored with M. R. Bennett. Most recently he has published Human Nature: The Categorial Framework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature. Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the 4th edition and extensively revised translation of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction to Volume 2 Abbreviations ANALYTICALCOMMENTARY I Two fruits upon one tree II Rules and grammar III Accord with a rule IV Following rules
mastery of techniques
and practices V Private linguists and 'private linguists' - Robinson Crusoe sails again VI Agreement in definitions
judgements and forms of life VII Grammar and necessity Index