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1: Introduction.- I: And End to Skimming.- 2: The (Hard) Practice of Reading: On the Use and Misuse of Wittgenstein for Literature.- II: Learning to Go on.- 3: Following a Rule' is a Practice.- 4: Kripke and Wittgenstein on Rule-Following: The Problem of Empty Philosophical Explanations.- 5: Wittgenstein, Meaning and Action.- 6: What is a Context?.- III: Counting Matters.- 7: The Bolshevik Menace of Anthropological Mathematics: Ramsey and Wittgenstein.- 8: Technik and Praxis in Later Wittgenstein.- 9: Mathematics and Aspect-Seeing.- 10: Entering a Practice of Mathematical Proof On the Difficulty of Teaching Proofs.- IV: Agreeable Animals.- 11: Social Ontology, Evolution, and the Foundations of Practice Theory.- 12: Practices, Normativity, and the Natural History of Human Biological Niche Construction.- 13: Avoiding Tac-on Theories of Culture.

Wittgenstein on Practice

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      Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
      Published 29 October 2024
      ISBN-13 9783031686559
      978-3031686559
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      Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism

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      1: Introduction.- I: And End to Skimming.- 2: The (Hard) Practice of Reading: On the Use and Misuse of Wittgenstein for Literature.- II: Learning to Go on.- 3: Following a Rule' is a Practice.- 4: Kripke and Wittgenstein on Rule-Following: The Problem of Empty Philosophical Explanations.- 5: Wittgenstein, Meaning and Action.- 6: What is a Context?.- III: Counting Matters.- 7: The Bolshevik Menace of Anthropological Mathematics: Ramsey and Wittgenstein.- 8: Technik and Praxis in Later Wittgenstein.- 9: Mathematics and Aspect-Seeing.- 10: Entering a Practice of Mathematical Proof On the Difficulty of Teaching Proofs.- IV: Agreeable Animals.- 11: Social Ontology, Evolution, and the Foundations of Practice Theory.- 12: Practices, Normativity, and the Natural History of Human Biological Niche Construction.- 13: Avoiding Tac-on Theories of Culture.

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