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The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations ) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules. Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein's conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements. Introduction to Volume 2. Abbreviations. ANALYTICALCOMMENTARY. I Two fruits upon one tree. 1. The continuation of the Early Draft into philosophy of mathematics. 2. Hidden isomorphism. 3. A common methodology. 4. The flatness of philosophical grammar. FOLLOWINGA RULE 185-242. Introduction to the exegesis. II Rules and grammar. 1. The Tractatusand rules of logical syntax. 2. From logical syntax to philosophical grammar. 3. Rules and rule-formulations. 4. Philosophy and grammar. 5. The scope of grammar. 6. Some morals. Exegesis 185-8. III Accord with a rule. 1. Initial compass bearings. 2. Accord and the harmony between language and reality. 3. Rules of inference and logical machinery. 4. Formulations and explanations of rules by examples. 5. Interpretations, fitting and grammar. 6. Further misunderstandings. Exegesis 189-202. IV Following rules, mastery of techniques, and practices. 1. Following a rule. 2. Practices and techniques. 3. Doing the right thing and doing the same thing. 4. Privacy and the community view. 5. On not digging below bedrock. V Private linguists and 'private linguists' - Robinson Crusoe sails again. 1. Is a language necessarily shared with a community of speakers? 2. Innate knowledge of a language. 3. Robinson Crusoe sails again. 4. Solitary cavemen and monologuists. 5. Private languages and 'private languages'. 6. Overview. Exegesis 203-37. VI Agreement in definitions, judgements and forms of life. 1. The scaffolding of facts. 2. The role of our nature. 3. Forms of life. 4. Agreement: consensus of human beings and their actions. Exegesis 238-42. VII Grammar and necessity. 1. Setting the stage. 2. Leitmotifs. 3. External guidelines. 4. Necessary propositions and norms of representation. 5. Concerning the truth and falsehood of necessary propositions. 6. What necessary truths are about. 7. Illusions of correspondence: ideal objects, kinds of reality and ultra-physics. 8. The psychology and epistemology of the a priori. (i) Knowledge. (ii) Belief. (iii) Certainty. (iv) Surprise. (v) Discoveries and conjectures. (vi) Compulsion. 9. Propositions of logic and laws of thought. 10. Alternative forms of representation. 11. The arbitrariness of grammar. 12. A kinship to the non-arbitrary. 13. Proof in mathematics. 14. Conventionalism. Index.

About the Author :
G. P. Baker was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford from 1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co-author with P.M.S. Hacker of the first two volumes of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, 1980-96), author of Wittgenstein, Frege and the Vienna Circle (Blackwell, 1988) and, with Katherine Morris, of Descartes' Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes. P. M. S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations , the first two volumes co-authored with G.P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980-96) and of Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). His recent works include The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), both co-authored with M. R. Bennett. Most recently he has published Human Nature: The Categorial Framework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature. Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the 4 th edition and extensively revised translation of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781444315691
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Weight: 692 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1444315692
  • Publisher Date: 26 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Other digital
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 163 mm


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