The Uses of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language

ISBN-13: 9780199245871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 416 str.

Charles Travis

Opis

This book provides a novel interpretation of the ideas about language in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. Travis places the "private language argument" in the context of wider themes in the Investigations, and thereby develops a picture of what it is for words to bear the meaning they do. He elaborates two versions of a private language argument, and shows the consequences of these for current trends in the philosophical theory of meaning.

Recenzje

thorough and wide-ranging explorations ... he is clearly very much in command of his material.

O autorze

Charles Travis is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois.