Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning: Towards a Social Conception of Mind

ISBN-13: 9780415189088 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 336 str.

Meredith Williams;Meredith Williams

Opis

Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning offers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental. This book addresses both Wittgenstein's later works as well as contemporary issues in philosophy of mind. It provides fresh insight into the later Wittgenstein and raises vital questions about the foundations of cognitivism and its wider implications for psychology and cognitive science.

Where Wittgenstein argues that there is no thought without language, advocates for cognitivism argue for the priority of thought over natural language usage.
This collection of papers explores the connection between Wittgenstein's criticism of the Cartesian theory of mind and his conception of language and mind, and lays the foundations for a social conception of mind, a conception that emphasises the social basis of rule-following and the philosophical significance of language learning.

Recenzje

'Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning represents one of the most subtle and sustained developments available of the communitarian or social reading of Wittgenstein's later work.'
- Mind

'A remarkably clear and immensely rewarding book.'
- Philosophical Investigations

Spis treści

Introduction. Part 1. Against the philosophic tradition 1. Wittgenstein on representations, privileged objects, and private languages 2. Private states and public practices: Wittgenstein and Schutz on intentionalty 3. Wittgenstein, Kant, and the "metaphysics of experience" 4. Language learning and the representational theory of mind Postscript to Chapter 4 5.Social norms and narrow content Part 2. A new direction 6. Rules, community, and the individual 7. The philosophical significance of learning in the later Wittgenstein 8. The etiology of the obvious:Wittgenstein and the elimination of indeterminacy 9.Wittgenstein's rejection of scientific psychology 10. Vygotsky's social theory of mind notes bibliography index of quotations index

O autorze

Meredith Williams is Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.