The Routledge guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations
by
 
McGinn, Marie.

Title
The Routledge guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations

Author
McGinn, Marie.

ISBN
9780415452557
 
9780415452564
 
9780203080955

Personal Author
McGinn, Marie.

Publication Information
London : Routledge, 2013.

Physical Description
xv, 341 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Series
The Routledge guides to the great books

General Note
Rev. ed. of: Routledge philosophy guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical investigations.

Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Style and method -- Introduction -- The idea of grammatical investigation -- The rejection of philosophical theories -- Philosophy as therapy -- `... the philosophical problems should completely disappear' -- References and further reading -- 2.Wittgenstein's critique of Augustine -- Introduction -- `Five red apples' -- `Block!', `Pillar!', `Slab!', `Beam!' -- Meaning and use -- Ostensive definition -- Everything lies open to view -- References and further reading -- 3.Rules and rule-following -- Introduction -- Kripke on Wittgenstein and rule-following -- Responses to Kripke: Wright versus McDowell -- The connection between meaning and use -- Meaning and understanding -- The connection between a rule and its application -- The logical `must' -- References and further reading -- 4.Privacy and private language -- Introduction -- The idea of a private language -- Our ordinary sensation language -- The private language argument --
 
Contents note continued: The role of private ostensive definition in our ordinary sensation language -- References and further reading -- 5.The inner and the outer -- Introduction -- Pain and pain-behaviour -- The idea of the private object -- The indeterminacy of our psychological language-game -- Pain is not a something, but not a nothing either -- Criteria -- References and further reading -- 6.Intentionality: thinking, imagining, believing -- Introduction -- Thinking -- Thought and language -- Speaking to oneself -- Imagining -- `"I" is not a name' -- Believing: Moore's Paradox -- References and further reading -- 7.Intentionality: thinking, expecting, intending -- Introduction -- Thought: the harmony between thought and reality -- Thought: catching reality in its net -- Wishing and expecting -- Intending -- References and further reading -- 8.Seeing and seeing aspects -- Introduction -- The visual room -- Seeing and seeing-as -- Seeing and describing what you see --
 
Contents note continued: References and further reading.

Personal Subject
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Philosophische Untersuchungen.

Subject Term
Philosophy.
 
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
 
Semantics (Philosophy)

Added Author
McGinn, Marie. Routledge philosophy guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical investigations.


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