Investigating Wittgenstein
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Investigating Wittgenstein
Blackwell, 1989
- : pbk
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A revolutioinary interpretation of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book presents an analysis of his early work in the "Tractatus" and its gradual transformation in the later philosophy of the "Investigations". The authors propose a radical interpretation of the "Tractatus" and argue that the objects of the "Tractatus" are but Russellian objects of acquaintance in disguise. Thus in the "Tractatus" Wittgenstein regarded phenomenological language as logically correct. However, in 1929, according to the authors, he abandoned the phenomenological conception of language in favour of a physicalist one and it is within this new framework that the "Philosophical Investigations" can be most fruitfully understood.
Table of Contents
- Wittgenstein and language as the universal medium
- the categorial status of the objects of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus"
- the objects of the "Tractatus" as objects of acquaintance
- what is the logic of the "Tractatus logico-philosophicus"?
- some remarks on (Wittgensteinian) logical form
- Wittgenstein in transition
- how did Wittgenstein come to change his mind?
- from ostension to language-games
- language-games in Wittgenstein's later thought
- Wittgenstein on private experience
- differences and interrelations among language-games in Wittgenstein.
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