Finding One S Way Through Wittgenstein S Philosophical Investigations

Author : Emmanuel Bermon,Jean-Philippe Narboux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319635071

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Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations by Emmanuel Bermon,Jean-Philippe Narboux Pdf

This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections §§1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening. The methodological conviction that subtends the volume is that the highly unconventional form assumed by the book is internal to its content and crucial to its reconception of the relation between logic and language. This disconcerting form is dictated by the new modes of criticism deployed by Wittgenstein as he engages the philosophical tradition in the new terms afforded by the revolutionary “method of language-games”. In the essays collected here, seven authors, including some of the most influential figures in the field, offer close and often unorthodox readings of pivotal passages from the beginning of the book. These readings are also shaped by the conviction that the Philosophical Investigations are hardly intelligible apart from an appreciation of the concerns that they inherit from Wittgenstein’s early work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The authors contend that we need to consider the continuities between the early and the later works if we are to disclose the true discontinuities between them.

Author : Oskari Kuusela,Mihai Ometita,Timur Uçan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317234593

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Wittgenstein and Phenomenology by Oskari Kuusela,Mihai Ometita,Timur Uçan Pdf

This volume of new essays explores the relationship between the thought of Wittgenstein and the key figures of phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. It is the first book to provide an overview of how Wittgenstein’s philosophy in its different phases, including his own so-called phenomenological phase, relates to the variety of phenomenological approaches developed in continental Europe. In so doing, the volume seeks to throw light on both sides of the comparison, and to clarify more broadly the relations between analytic and phenomenological philosophy. However, rather than treating the interpretation of either phenomenological philosophy or Wittgenstein as an already settled issue, several chapters in the volume examine and question received views regarding them, and develop alternatives to such views. Wittgenstein and Phenomenology will be of interest to scholars working in philosophical methodology and metaphilosophy, the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and logic, and ethics.

Author : Cora Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674051683

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Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics by Cora Diamond Pdf

Cora Diamond follows two major philosophers as they think about thinking, and about our ability to respond to thinking that has gone astray. Acting as both witness to and participant in the encounter, she provides fresh perspective on the value of Wittgenstein’s and Anscombe’s work, and demonstrates what genuinely independent thought can achieve.

Author : Avner Baz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192522085

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The Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy by Avner Baz Pdf

Avner Baz offers a critique of leading work in mainstream analytic philosophy, and in particular challenges assumptions underlying recent debates concerning philosophical method. In the first part of The Crisis of Method, Baz identifies fundamental confusions about what the widely-employed philosophical "method of cases" is supposed to accomplish, and how. He then argues that the method, as commonly employed by both "armchair" and "experimental" philosophers, is underwritten by substantive, and poorly supported, "representationalist" assumptions about languageassumptions to which virtually all of the participants in the recent debates over philosophical method have shown themselves committed. In the second part of the book, Baz challenges those assumptions, both philosophically and empirically. Drawing on Austin, Wittgenstein, and Merleau-Ponty, as well as on empirical studies of first language acquisition, he presents and motivates a broadly pragmatist conception of language on which the method of cases as commonly practiced is fundamentally misguidedmore misguided than even its staunchest critics have hitherto recognized.

Author : Judith Genova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317828280

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Wittgenstein by Judith Genova Pdf

In Wittgenstein's Way of Seeing, Judith Genova provides a an illuminating introduction to two surprisingly neglected aspects of his work: his conception of philosophy and his search for a style to embody his revolutionary practice. Genova examines the nuances, contours, and texture of logical twists of language. She elucidates Wittgenstein's reliance on the work of Kant and Freud, and presents how words are acts for Wittgenstein.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:21736692

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Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein Pdf

Author : Beth Savickey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134679119

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Wittgenstein's Art of Investigation by Beth Savickey Pdf

Wittgenstein's Art of Investigation is one of the first to focus on and provide an original and detailed analysis of Wittgenstein's grammatical investigations. Beth Sarkey offers us new insight into the historical context and influences on method which will help students understand the intricacies and depth of his work.

Author : Richard Allen Gilmore
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739100092

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Philosophical Health by Richard Allen Gilmore Pdf

The style of Wittgenstein's writing in his Philosophical Investigations seems quite peculiar to many readers, and is in many way unlike any other style of writing in the history of philosophy. In Philosophical Health, Richard Gilmore argues that Wittgenstein's ultimate goal in the "Investigations" is to restore us to a condition of philosophical health. The traditional methods and styles of doing philosophy, Gilmore suggests, led to a strange kind of philosophical sickness. Philosophical health is a condition that does not repudiate the philosophical search or philosophical wonder, but does free us from a kind of sickness that results from looking in the wrong places for the wrong kinds of answers. According to Gilmore, Wittgenstein thought that to do philosophy in the right way we have to pay careful attention to the way we speak and think about things in our everyday lives. Philosophical Health is an original and thought-provoking look at Wittgenstein's later philosophy.

Author : Jens Pier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000803082

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Limits of Intelligibility by Jens Pier Pdf

The chapters in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought, knowledge, and speech are to be drawn. Is there a way in which we are limited in what we think, know, and say? And if so, does this mean that we are constrained—that there is something beyond the ken of human intelligibility of which we fall short? Or is there another way to think about these limits of intelligibility—namely, as conditions of our meaning and knowing anything, beyond which there is no specifiable thing we cannot do? These issues feature prominently in the writings of Kant and Wittgenstein who each engaged with them in unique and striking ways. Their thoughts on the matter remain provocative and stimulating, and accordingly, the contributions to this volume address the issues surrounding the limits of intelligibility both exegetically and systematically: they examine how they figure in Kant’s and Wittgenstein’s most significant works and put them in touch with contemporary debates that are shaped by their legacy. These debates concern, inter alia, logically and morally alien thought, the semantics and philosophy of negation, disjunctivism in philosophy of perception and ethics, paraconsistent approaches to contradiction, and the relation between art, literature, and philosophy. The book is divided into four parts: Part I gives a first assessment of the issues, Part II examines limits as they feature in Kant, Part III as they feature in Wittgenstein, and Part IV suggests some ways in which the questions might be reconsidered, drawing upon ideas in phenomenology, dialetheism, metamathematics, and the works of other influential authors. Limits of Intelligibility provides insight into a theme that is central to the thought of two of the most important figures in modern philosophy, as well as to recent metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, epistemology, and ethics.

Author : Gordon P. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470753071

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Wittgenstein's Method by Gordon P. Baker Pdf

This is a collection of the key articles written by renowned Wittgenstein scholar, G.P. Baker, on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, published posthumously. Following Baker’s death in 2002, the volume has been edited by collaborator and partner, Katherine Morris. Contains articles previously only available in other languages, and one previously unpublished paper. Completely distinct from the widely-known work Baker did with P.M.S. Hacker in the Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell Publishing, 1980-1996).

Author : John Gibson,Wolfgang Huemer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0415289734

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The Literary Wittgenstein by John Gibson,Wolfgang Huemer Pdf

A stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature, written by the most prominent figures in the field.

Author : Severin Schroeder
Publisher : Polity
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745626161

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Wittgenstein by Severin Schroeder Pdf

This book offers a lucid and highly readable account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, framed against the background of his extraordinary life and character. Woven together with a biographical narrative, the chapters explain the key ideas of Wittgenstein's work, from his first book, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to his mature masterpiece, the Philosophical Investigations. Severin Schroeder shows that at the core of Wittgenstein's later work lies a startlingly original and subversive conception of the nature of philosophy. In accordance with this conception, Wittgenstein offers no new philosophical doctrines to replace his earlier ones, but seeks to demonstrate how all philosophical theorizing is the result of conceptual misunderstanding. He first diagnoses such misunderstanding at the core of his own earlier philosophy of language and then subjects philosophical views and problems about various mental phenomena understanding, sensations, the will to a similar therapeutic analysis. Schroeder provides a clear and careful account of the main arguments offered by Wittgenstein. He concludes by considering some critical responses to Wittgenstein's work, assessing its legacy for contemporary philosophy. Wittgenstein is ideal for students seeking a clear and concise introduction to the work of this seminal twentieth-century philosopher.

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 2000 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847144706

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Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers by John R. Shook Pdf

The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers includes both academic and non-academic philosophers, and a large number of female and minority thinkers whose work has been neglected. It includes those intellectuals involved in the development of psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology, political science, and several other fields, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, a bibliography of writings, and suggestions for further reading. While all the major post-Civil War philosophers are present, the most valuable feature of this dictionary is its coverage of a huge range of less well-known writers, including hundreds of presently obscure thinkers. In many cases, the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers offers the first scholarly treatment of the life and work of certain writers. This book will be an indispensable reference work for scholars working on almost any aspect of modern American thought.

Author : Veena Das
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823287901

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Textures of the Ordinary by Veena Das Pdf

How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention to the diverse ways in which the natural and the social mutually absorb each other on a daily basis. Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. Das shows that doing anthropology after Wittgenstein does not consist in taking over a new set of terms such as forms of life, language games, or private language from Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Instead, we must learn to see what eludes us in the everyday precisely because it is before our eyes. The book shows different routes of return to the everyday as it is corroded not only by catastrophic events but also by repetitive and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence. Textures of the Ordinary offers a model of thinking in which concepts and experience are shown to be mutually vulnerable. With questions returned to repeatedly throughout the text and over a lifetime, this book is an intellectually intimate invitation into the ordinary, that which is most simple yet most difficult to perceive in our lives.

Author : Erich Ammereller,Eugen Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134374960

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Wittgenstein at Work by Erich Ammereller,Eugen Fischer Pdf

Twelve specially-commissioned papers explore the revolutionary aims and methods of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later work, providing a much-needed methodological companion to the Philosophical Investigations.