{"product_id":"wittgenstein-understanding-and-meaning-9781405101769","title":"Wittgenstein Understanding and Meaning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S. Hacker's definitive reference work on Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew edition of the first volume of the monumental four-volume \u003ci\u003eAnalytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes into account much material that was unavailable when the first edition was written.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFollowing Baker's death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has thoroughly revised the first volume, rewriting many essays and sections of exegesis completely.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePart One - the Essays - now includes two completely new essays: ''Meaning and Use'' and ''The Recantation of a Metaphysician''.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePart Two - Exegesis 1-184 - has been thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eNachlass\u003c\/i\u003e, and includes many new interpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of the book, a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays...are scholarly, and profound, and also acute, confident, and full of good sense and judgment\" (Colin Radford, \u003ci\u003eMind\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is a landmark in Wittgenstein studies, raising to a new level the criteria for an adequate understanding of Wittgenstein.\" (\u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"For someone who wants to understand, point for point and in detail, how Wittgenstein's later philosophy upsets the philosophies of Russell, Frege and the \u003ci\u003eTractatus\u003c\/i\u003e, this is the book to read.\" (\u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Books\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[The authors'] interpretive essays develop with care, subtlety, and in considerable detail...they have performed a great service in presenting the programmatic views clearly, carefully and dispassionately.\"\u003cbr\u003e --James Bogen\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wittgenstein: Meaning and Understanding is a sort of compendium which I wouldn’t want to do without. As a matter of fact, I cannot do without it, both in the sense that I need it to get all kinds of historical or philological information, as well as philosophical stimulation, and in the sense that I have become addicted to the book's magisterial way of bringing out and dealing with the difficulties of Wittgenstein’s masterpiece.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Joachim Schulte, University of Bielefeld\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part I: Essays xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI The Augustinian conception of language ( 1) 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Augustine’s picture 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Augustinian family 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(a) word-meaning 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(b) correlating words with meanings 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(c) ostensive explanation 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(d) metapsychological corollaries 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(e) sentence-meaning 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Moving off in new directions 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Frege 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Russell 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Tractatus 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII Explanation ( 6) 29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Training, teaching and explaining 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Explanation and meaning 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Explanation and grammar 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Explanation and understanding 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII The language-game method ( 7) 45\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The emergence of the game analogy 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. An intermediate phase: comparisons with invented calculi 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The emergence of the language-game method 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Invented language-games 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Natural language-games 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV Descriptions and the uses of sentences (§18) 65\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Flying in the face of the facts 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Sentences as descriptions of facts: surface-grammatical paraphrase 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Sentences as descriptions: depth-grammatical analysis and descriptive contents 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Sentences as instruments 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Assertions, questions, commands make contact in language 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV Ostensive definition and its ramifications (§28) 81\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Connecting language and reality 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The range and limits of ostensive explanations 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The normativity of ostensive definition 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Samples 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Misunderstandings resolved 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Samples and simples 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI Indexicals (§39) 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII Logically proper names (§39) 113\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Russell 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Tractatus 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The criticisms of the Investigations: assailing the motivation 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The criticisms of the Investigations: real proper names and simple names 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIII Meaning and use (§43) 129\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The concept of meaning 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Setting the stage 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Wittgenstein: meaning and its internal relations 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Qualifications 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIX Contextual dicta and contextual principles (§50) 159\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The problems of a principle 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Frege 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Tractatus 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. After the Tractatus 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Compositional theories of meaning 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Computational theories of understanding 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX The standard metre (§50) 189\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The rudiments of measurement 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The standard metre and canonical samples 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Fixing the reference or explaining the meaning? 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Defusing paradoxes 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXI Family resemblance (§65) 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Background: definition, logical constituents and analysis 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Family resemblance: precursors and anticipations 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Family resemblance: a minimalist interpretation 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Sapping the defences of orthodoxy 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Problems about family-resemblance concepts 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Psychological concepts 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Formal concepts 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXII Proper names (§79) 227\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Stage-setting 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Frege and Russell: simple abbreviation theories 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Cluster theories of proper names 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Some general principles 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Some critical consequences 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The significance of proper names 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Proper names and meaning 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIII Turning the examination around: the recantation of a metaphysician (§89) 251\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Reorienting the investigation 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The sublime vision 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Diagnosis: projecting the mode of representation on to what is represented 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Idealizing the prototype 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Misunderstanding the role of the Ideal 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Turning the examination around 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIV Philosophy (§109) 271\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. A revolution in philosophy 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The sources of philosophical problems 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The goals of philosophy: conceptual geography and intellectual therapy 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The difficulty of philosophy 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The methods of philosophy 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Negative corollaries 294\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Misunderstandings 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Retrospect: the Tractatus and the Investigations 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXV Surveyability and surveyable representations (§122) 307\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Surveyability 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Precursors: Hertz, Boltzmann, Ernst, Goethe, Spengler 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The morphological method and the difficulty of surveying grammar 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Surveyable representations 326\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXVI Truth and the general propositional form (§134) 335\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The demands of the picture theory 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. ‘That’s the way the cookie crumbles’ 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. ‘. . . do we have a single concept of proposition?’ (PG 112) 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. ‘. . . the use of the words “true” and “false” . . . belongs to our concept “proposition” but does not fit it . . .’ (PI §136) 346\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Truth, correspondence and multi-valued logic 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXVII Understanding and ability (§143) 357\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The place of the elucidation of understanding in the Investigations 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Meaning and understanding as the soul of signs 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Categorial misconceptions of understanding 362\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Categorial clarification 367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(a) Understanding is not an experience 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(b) Understanding is not a process 369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(c) Understanding is not a mental state 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(d) Understanding is neither a dispositional state of the brain nor a disposition 373\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Powers and abilities 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Understanding and ability 380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 387\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407836455255,"sku":"9781405101769","price":40.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405101769.jpg?v=1730500690","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wittgenstein-understanding-and-meaning-9781405101769","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}