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'Overall, the collection is excellent - it includes interesting, well-written essays by notable Wittgenstein scholars ... Stern's introduction is especially helpful in situating the book in the existing literature and debates, and may be of broad interest.' M. J. Moore, Choice 'For Wittgenstein, throughout his life, philosophy was seen as 'not a doctrine but an activity' ... This philosophical unrest is exposed, analyzed and discussed throughout the book. ... The present volume, then, does a great service for Wittgenstein scholars and followers - not only because of the depth and quality of the essays comprising it but also in reminding us what philosophy 'as an activity' may mean.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 'Overall, the collection is excellent - it includes interesting, well-written essays by notable Wittgenstein scholars ... Stern's introduction is especially helpful in situating the book in the existing literature and debates, and may be of broad interest. Recommended.' Choice 'Overall, the collection is excellent - it includes interesting, well-written essays by notable Wittgenstein scholars ... Stern's introduction is especially helpful in situating the book in the existing literature and debates, and may be of broad interest.' M. J. Moore, Choice 'For Wittgenstein, throughout his life, philosophy was seen as 'not a doctrine but an activity' ... This philosophical unrest is exposed, analyzed and discussed throughout the book. ... The present volume, then, does a great service for Wittgenstein scholars and followers - not only because of the depth and quality of the essays comprising it but also in reminding us what philosophy 'as an activity' may mean.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 'Overall, the collection is excellent - it includes interesting, well-written essays by notable Wittgenstein scholars ... Stern's introduction is especially helpful in situating the book in the existing literature and debates, and may be of broad interest. Recommended.' Choice

'Overall, the collection is excellent - it includes interesting, well-written essays by notable Wittgenstein scholars … Stern's introduction is especially helpful in situating the book in the existing literature and debates, and may be of broad interest.' M. J. Moore, Choice 'For Wittgenstein, throughout his life, philosophy was seen as 'not a doctrine but an activity' … This philosophical unrest is exposed, analyzed and discussed throughout the book. … The present volume, then, does a great service for Wittgenstein scholars and followers - not only because of the depth and quality of the essays comprising it but also in reminding us what philosophy 'as an activity' may mean.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 'Overall, the collection is excellent - it includes interesting, well-written essays by notable Wittgenstein scholars … Stern's introduction is especially helpful in situating the book in the existing literature and debates, and may be of broad interest. Recommended.' Choice

'Overall, the collection is excellent - it includes interesting, well-written essays by notable Wittgenstein scholars ... Stern's introduction is especially helpful in situating the book in the existing literature and debates, and may be of broad interest.' M. J. Moore, Choice 'Overall, the collection is excellent - it includes interesting, well-written essays by notable Wittgenstein scholars ... Stern's introduction is especially helpful in situating the book in the existing literature and debates, and may be of broad interest.' M. J. Moore, Choice

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David G. Stern is Professor of Philosophy and a Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations': An Introduction (Cambridge, 2004) and Wittgenstein on Mind and Language (1995), as well as more than fifty journal articles and book chapters. He is also a co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2018), Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933: From the Notes of G. E. Moore (Cambridge, 2016) and Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (2004).

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