The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

ISBN-13: 9780415452557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 360 str.

Marie McGinn

Opis

Wittgenstein is the most influential twentieth century philosopher in the English-speaking world. In the Philosophical Investigations, his most important work, he introduces the famous 'private language argument' which changed the whole philosophical view of language. More...Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations introduces and assesses: * Wittgenstein's life, and its connection with his thought* the text of the Philosophical Investigations* the importance of Wittgenstein's work to contemporary philosophy

Spis treści

Series Editor Preface  Preface  Abbreviations  Introduction  1. Style and Method  2. Wittgenstein's Critique of Augustine  3. Rules and Rule-following   4. Privacy and Private Language  5. The Inner and the Outer  6. Intentionality: Thinking, Imagining, Believing  7. Intentionality: Thinking, Expecting, Intending  8. Seeing and Seeing Aspects  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Marie McGinn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of York.