Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning

Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis §§1-184
2. Revised Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9925-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

This is a much revised and extended new edition of Part II of the first volume of the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations. - Takes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was written
- Following Baker’s death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has rewritten many sections of exegesis completely
- Part II: Exegesis §§1-184 has been thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, and includes many new interpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of the Philosophical Investigations and an overview of its structure
- The accompanying Part I: Essays now includes two completely new essays: 'Meaning and Use' and 'The Recantation of a Metaphysician'; the essays: ‘The Augustinian Conception of Language’, ‘The Language-Game Method’, ‘Contextual Dicta and Contextual Principles’, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Surveyability and Surveyable Representations’, and ‘Truth and the General Propositional Form’ are redrafted and expanded, incorporating new source materials and new arguments, as well as taking into account debates of the last quarter of a century
- The revisions will ensure that this remains the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein’s masterpiece for the foreseeable future

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Gordon P

Baker, G. P.

Hacker, P M S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Introduction to Part II: Exegesis.

Note to the paperback edition 2009.

Abbreviations.

The history of the composition of the Philosophical Investigations.

An overview of the structure and argument of the Philosophical Investigations.

Exegesis.

The Title.

The Motto.

The Preface.

Chapter 1 The Augustinian conception of language (§§1–27(a)).

Chapter 2 Illusions of naming: ostensive definition, logically proper names, simples and samples, and analysis (§§27(b)–64).

Chapter 3 Family resemblance, determinacy of sense, and the quest for essence (§§65–88).

Chapter 4 Philosophy (§§89–133).

Chapter 5 The general propositional form (§§134–42).

Chapter 6 Understanding and ability (§§143–84).

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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 other previous 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 Categorical Framework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature.Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the 4th edition and extensively revised translation of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2009).