Wittgenstein, Rules, Grammar and Necessity: An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Vol 2 - Couverture souple

Baker, G. P.; Hacker, P. M. S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0631161880 ISBN 13 : 9780631161882

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1988

Synopsis

This is the second volume of analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's masterpiece, the "Philosophical Investigations". Like the first, it consists of philosophical essays and critical exegesis. The six essays deal comprehensively with various themes in Wittgenstein's philosophy: the relationship between his mathematics and his philosophy of mind; his conception of grammar and rules of grammar; the relation between a rule and what accords with a rule; the characterization of rule-following as mastery of a technique manifest in practice; his notion of a form of life, and of agreement in definitions and judgements; a comprehensive investigation into his account of logical and mathematical necessity and other topics.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

This is an extensively revised second edition of Wittgenstein:Rules, Grammar and Necessity, the second volume of Baker andHacker′s renowned analytical commentary on Wittgenstein′s Philosophical Investigations. Comprising both detailedexegesis and interpretative essays, this edition includes  comprehensively revised coverage of some of the most important andwidely discussed passages in Wittgenstein′s entire writings, namelyhis intricate and controversial remarks on following rules(§§189 242). The new edition draws on the fullresources of the search engine of the electronic publication of the Nachlass  and takes into account the extensive debateson the themes associated with these sections of Wittgenstein′smasterwork over the last quarter of a century.

All the essays have been revised and one new essay oncommunitarian and individualist conceptions of rule–following hasbeen added to the previous six. These deal with the relationshipbetween the alternative continuations of the early draft of theInvestigations; with Wittgenstein′s conception of grammarand rules of grammar; with the relation between a rule and whataccords with it; with the characterization of rule–following asmastery of a technique manifest in practice; with the notion of aform of life and agreements in definitions and judgements. Themajor essay ′Grammar and necessity′ has been greatly extended. Itprovides an overview of Wittgenstein′s revolutionary and littleunderstood analysis of the propositions of logic, mathematics andmetaphysics.

Insightful and thought–provoking, the second edition ofWittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity constitutes a keycontribution to the ongoing analysis of one of the most influentialphilosophical works of the 20th century.

Biographie de l'auteur

G. P. Baker was a Fellow of St John′s College, Oxford from1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co–author with P.M.S.Hacker of the first two volumes of the four–volume AnalyticalCommentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell,1980 96), author of Wittgenstein, Frege and the ViennaCircle (Blackwell, 1988) and, with Katherine Morris, of Descartes′ Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerous articleson Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes.

P. M. S. Hacker is the leading authority on thephilosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four–volumeAnalytical 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–centuryAnalytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). His recent works includeThe Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell,2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience(Wiley–Blackwell, 2008), both co–authored with M. R. Bennett. Mostrecently he has published Human Nature: The CategorialFramework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy onhuman nature. Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the4th edition and extensively revised translation ofWittgenstein′s Philosophical Investigations(Wiley–Blackwell, 2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0631161880
• ISBN 13: 9780631161882
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible