Wittgenstein on Mind and Language

Name: Wittgenstein on Mind and Language
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ISBN: 9780195111477

ISBN-10: 0195111478

ISBN-13: 9780195111477

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: David G. Stern

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Drawing on ten years of research on the unpublished Wittgenstein papers, Stern investigates what motivated Wittgenstein's philosophical writing and casts new light on the Tratacus and Philosophical Investigations. The book is an exposition of Wittgenstein's early conception of the nature of representation and how his later revision and criticism of that work led to a radically different way of looking at mind and language. It also explains how the unpublished manuscripts and typescripts were put together and why they often provide better evidence of the development of his ideas than can be found in his published writing. In doing so, the book traces the development of a number of central…

Book details

List price: $98.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/29/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.25" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

David G. Stern is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Iowa.




Introduction



The Wittgenstein Papers



The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy



Wittgenstein's Methods



Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy



Logic and Language



The Picture Theory



The Limits of Language



Showing and Saying



Subject and Object



Logical Atomism



Analysis in the Tractatus



The Application of Language



The Subjects of the Tractatus



Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy



From Logical Atomism to Practical Holism



Wittgenstein's Later Writing



Logical Form and Logical Holism



Insight, Decision, and Practice



From Logical Holism to Practical Holism



The Description of Immediate Experience



Philosophical Analysis and Primary Language



Wittgenstein's Rejection of Primary Language



The Magic Lantern Simile: Inside and Outside the Picture Theory



The World as Idea



The Flow of Life



Why Language Cannot Say That "All Is in Flux,"



Leading Words Back from Their Metaphysical Use



Wittgenstein's Treatment of Private Language



"Words Only Have Meaning in the Flow of Life,"



Passages from the Unpublished Wittgenstein Papers (Nachlass)


Bibliography


Index


Index of Quotations