{"product_id":"wittgenstein-9781118951804","title":"Wittgenstein","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWittgenstein: Meaning and Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is the third volume of a four-volume analytical commentary on Wittgenstein''s \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations,\u003c\/i\u003e consisting of two parts. Part 1 is a sequence of fifteen essays that examine in detail all the major topics discussed in \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e 243-427. These include the private language arguments, privacy, private ostensive definition, the nature of the mind, the inner and the outer, behaviour and behaviourism, thought, imagination, the self, consciousness, and criteria. Published in 1990 to widespread acclaim as a scholarly \u003ci\u003etour de force,\u003c\/i\u003e the first edition of this volume of essays provides a comprehensive survey of these themes, the history of their treatment in early modern and modern philosophy, the development of Wittgenstein''s ideas on these subjects from 1929 onwards, and an elaborate analysis of his definitive arguments in the \u003ci\u003eInvestigations.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new second edition has been thoroughly revised by the author and features four new essays. These include a survey of the evolution of the private language arguments in Wittgenstein''s \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e and their role within the developing argument of the \u003ci\u003eInvestigations,\u003c\/i\u003e a comprehensive essay on private ownership of experience and its pitfalls, a detailed examination and defence of Wittgenstein''s repudiation of subjective knowledge of one''s experience, and an overview of the achievement and importance of the private language arguments. Revised essays examine new objections to Wittgenstein''s arguments  which are found wanting and incorporate new materials from the \u003ci\u003eNachlass\u003c\/i\u003e that were not known to exist in 1990. All references have been adjusted to the revised fourth edition of the \u003ci\u003eInvestigations,\u003c\/i\u003e but previous pagination in the first and second editions has been retained in parentheses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese revisions bring the book up to the high standard of the extensively revised editions of \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2005) and \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley Blackwell, 2009). They ensure that this survey of Wittgenstein''s private language arguments and of his accounts of thought, imagination, consciousness, the self, and criteria will remain the essential reference work on the \u003ci\u003eInvestigations\u003c\/i\u003e for the foreseeable future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote to the second edition: Part I: Essays xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements to the first edition xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements to the second edition xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part I: Essays xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xxv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI Introduction to the private language arguments 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Augustinian conception of language and Wittgenstein’s early commitments 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The place of the private language arguments in the \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations \u003c\/i\u003e9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Great Tradition and its long shadow 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. From grammatical trivialities to metaphysical mysteries 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The dialectic of the mental 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII Only I can have 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The traditional picture and its predicaments 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Private ownership 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Dispelling conceptual illusions and confusions 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII Only I can know 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The roots of the problem 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Wittgenstein’s response to the classical conception 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Wittgenstein’\u003ci\u003es \u003c\/i\u003esketchy account of knowledge 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The cognitive network: connective analysis 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. A different route: the functions of the verb ‘to know’ 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The temptations of the received view resisted 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Further objections rebutted 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV Private ostensive definition 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. A ‘private’ language 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Names, ostensive definitions and samples — a reminder 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The vocabulary of a private language 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Idle wheels 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV Men, minds and machines 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Human beings, their parts and their bodies 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The mind 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Only in the stream of life … 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Homunculi and brains 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Can machines think? 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI Avowals and descriptions 113\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Descriptions of subjective experience 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Descriptions 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Natural expression 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. A spectrum of cases 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII Behaviour and behaviourism 127\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Behaviourism in psychology and philosophy 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Wittgenstein: first reactions 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Crypto‐behaviourism? 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Body and behaviour 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIII Knowledge of other minds: the inner and the outer 153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Semi‐solipsism 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Inside and outside 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The indeterminacy of the mental 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIX An overview of the achievement of the private language arguments 167\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. An overview 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Fundamental insights 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Fidelity to philosophical methodology 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Consequences and confusions 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX Thinking: methodological muddles and categorical confusions 191\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Thinking: a muddle elevated to a mystery 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Methodological clarifications 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Activities of the mind 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Processes in the mind 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXI Thinking: the soul of language 207\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The strategic role of the argument 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The dual‐process conception 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Thought, language and the mastery of linguistic skills 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Making a radical break 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXII Images and the imagination 229\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Landmarks 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Seeing, imagining and mental images 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Images and pictures 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Visual images and visual impressions 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Imagination, intention and the will 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIII I and my self 251\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Historical antecedents 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. ‘The I, the I is what is deeply mysterious’ 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The eliminability of the word ‘I’ 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. ‘“I” does not refer to a person’ 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIV The world of consciousness 271\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The world as consciousness 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The gulf between consciousness and body 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The certainty of consciousness 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXV Criteria 285\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Symptoms and hypotheses 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Symptoms and criteria 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Further problems about criteria 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Evidence, knowledge and certainty 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 307\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528842551639,"sku":"9781118951804","price":65.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118951804.jpg?v=1731873237","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wittgenstein-9781118951804","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}