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Since the middle of the 20th century Ludwig Wittgenstein has been an exceptionally influential and controversial figure wherever philosophy is studied. This is the most comprehensive volume ever published on Wittgenstein: thirty-five leading scholars explore the whole range of his thought, offering critical engagement and original interpretation, and tracing his philosophical development. Topics discussed include logic and mathematics, language and mind, epistemology, philosophical methodology, religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Wittgenstein's relation to other founders of analytic philosophy such as Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore is explored. This Handbook is the place to look for a full understanding of Wittgenstein's special importance to modern philosophy.

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Author:   Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia) ,  Marie McGinn (University of East Anglia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.426kg
ISBN:  

9780198708995

ISBN 10:   0198708998
Pages:   840
Publication Date:   20 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction Oskari Kuusela and Marie McGinn: Editors' Introduction 1: Brian McGuinness: Wittgenstein and Biography Part II: Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics 2: Gregory Landini: Wittgenstein Reads Russell 3: Colin Johnston: Assertion, Saying, and Propositional Complexity in Wittgenstein's Tractatus 4: Wolfgang Kienzler: Wittgenstein and Frege 5: A. W. Moore: Wittgenstein and Infinity 6: Michael Potter: Wittgenstein on Mathematics 7: Matthieu Marion: Wittgenstein on Surveyability of Proofs 8: Simo Säätelä: From Logical Method to 'Messing About': Wittgenstein on 'Open Problems' in Mathematics Part III: Philosophy of Language 9: Charles Travis: The Proposition's Progress 10: Ian Proops: Logical Atomism in Russell and Wittgenstein 11: Cora Diamond: The Tractatus and the Limits of Sense 12: Edward Minar: The Life of the Sign: Rule-Following, Practice, and Agreement 13: Barry Stroud: Meaning and Understanding 14: David R. Cerbone: Wittgenstein and Idealism 15: David Stern: Private Language 16: Lars Hertzberg: Very General Facts of Nature Part IV: Philosophy of Mind 17: William Child: Wittgenstein on the First Person 18: Paul Snowdon: Private Experience and Sense Data 19: Joachim Schulte: Privacy 20: John Hyman: Wittgenstein on Action and the Will 21: Edward Witherspoon: Wittgenstein on Criteria and the Problem of Other Minds 22: Michel ter Hark: Wittgenstein on the Experience of Meaning and Secondary Use Part V: Epistemology 23: Duncan Pritchard: Wittgenstein on Scepticism 24: Thomas Baldwin: Wittgenstein and Moore 25: Kim van Gennip: Wittgenstein on Intuition, Rule-following, and Certainty: Exchanges with Brouwer and Russell Part VI: Method 26: Oskari Kuusela: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy 27: James Conant: Wittgenstein's Methods 28: Marie McGinn: Grammar in the Philosophical Investigations 29: Beth Savickey: Wittgenstein's Use of Examples 30: Avner Baz: Aspect Perception and Philosophical Difficulty 31: Marjorie Perloff: Writing Philosophy as Poetry: Literary Form in Wittgenstein 32: Joel Backström: Wittgenstein and the Moral Dimension of Philosophical Problems Part VII: Religion, Aesthetics, Ethics 33: Stephen Mulhall: Wittgenstein on Religious Belief 34: Malcolm Budd: Wittgenstein on Aesthetics 35: Anne-Marie S. Christensen: Wittgenstein and Ethics Index

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Oskari Kuusela is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Struggle Against Dogmatism: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy (Harvard UP, 2008) and the co-editor of Wittgenstein's Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker (Blackwell, 2007). Professor Marie McGinn is Professor Emerita of the University of York, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She is author of Sense and Certainty (Blackwell, 1989), Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge, 1997), Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language (OUP, 2007), and Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations, 2nd Edition (Routledge, forthcoming).

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