Baker / Hacker Wittgenstein

Understanding and Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis §§1-184
2. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75309-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S.Hacker's definitive reference work on Wittgenstein'sPhilosophical Investigations.
* Takes into account much material that was unavailable when thefirst edition was written.
* Following Baker's death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker hasthoroughly revised the first volume, rewriting many essays andsections of exegesis completely.
* Part One - the Essays - now includes two completelynew essays: 'Meaning and Use' and 'The Recantation of aMetaphysician'.
* Part Two - Exegesis §§1-184 - hasbeen thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publicationof Wittgenstein's Nachlass, and includes many newinterpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of thebook, and an overview of its structure.
* The revisions will ensure that this remains the definitivereference work on Wittgenstein's masterpiece for theforeseeable future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, G. P.

Baker, Gordon P.

Hacker, P. M. S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Introduction to Part II: Exegesis.
Note to the paperback edition 2009.
Abbreviations.
The history of the composition of the PhilosophicalInvestigations.
An overview of the structure and argument of thePhilosophical 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, logicallyproper names, simples and samples, and analysis(§§27(b)-64).
Chapter 3 Family resemblance, determinacy of sense, and thequest 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, Oxfordfrom 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 AnalyticalCommentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell,1980-96), author of Wittgenstein, Frege and the ViennaCircle (Blackwell, 1988) and with Katherine Morris ofDescartes' Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerousarticles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes.
P.M.S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophyof Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume AnalyticalCommentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first twovolumes co-authored with G.P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980-96) andof Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century AnalyticPhilosophy (Blackwell, 1996). His other previous 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 CategoricalFramework (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, forthcoming 2009).