The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein

by Kuusela, Oskari; McGinn, Marie

• ISBN13: 9780199287505
• ISBN10: 0199287503
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Since the middle of the 20th century Ludwig Wittgenstein has been an exceptionally influential and controversial figure wherever philosophy is studied. This is the most comprehensive volume ever published on Wittgenstein: thirty-five leading scholars explore the whole range of his thought, offering critical engagement and original interpretation, and tracing his philosophical development. Topics discussed include logic and mathematics, language and mind, epistemology, philosophical methodology, religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Wittgenstein's relation to other founders of analytic philosophy such as Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore is explored. This Handbook is the place to look for a full understanding of Wittgenstein's special importance to modern philosophy.

Author Biography

Oskari Kuusela is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Struggle Against Dogmatism: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy (Harvard UP, 2008) and the co-editor of Wittgenstein's Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker (Blackwell, 2007).

Marie McGinn is Professor Emerita of the University of York, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She is author of Sense and Certainty (Blackwell, 1989), Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge, 1997), Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language (OUP, 2007), and Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations, 2nd Edition (Routledge, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. ix
Abbreviations of Wittgenstein's works	p. xi
Introduction
Editors' Introduction	p. 3
Wittgenstein and Biography	p. 13
Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics
Wittgenstein Reads Russell	p. 27
Assertion, Saying, and Propositional Complexity in Wittgensteins Tractatus	p. 60
Wittgenstein and Frege	p. 79
Wittgenstein and Irifinity	p. 105
Wittgenstein on Mathematics	p. 122
Wittgenstein on Surveyability of Proofs	p. 138
From Logical Method to 'Messing About': Wittgenstein on 'Open Problems' in Mathematics	p. 162
Philosophy of Language
The PropositionÆs Progress	p. 183
Logical Atomism in Russell and Wittgenstein	p. 214
The Tractatus and the Limits of Sense	p. 240
The Life of the Sign: Rule-following, Practice, and Agreement	p. 276
Meaning and Understanding	p. 294
Wittgenstein and Idealism	p. 311
Private Language	p. 333
Very General Facts of Nature	p. 351
Philosophy of Mind
Wittgenstein on the First Person	p. 375
Private Experience and Sense Data	p. 402
Privacy	p. 429
Action and the Will	p. 451
Wittgenstein on Criteria and the Problem of Other Minds	p. 472
Wittgenstein on the Experience of Meaning and Secondary Use	p. 499
Epistemology
Wittgenstein on Scepticism	p. 523
Wittgenstein and Moore	p. 550
Wittgenstein on Intuition, Rule-following, and Certainty: Exchanges with Brouwer and Russell	p. 570
Method
The Development of Wittgensteins Philosophy	p. 597
WittgensteinÆs Methods	p. 620
Grammar in the Philosophical Investigations	p. 646
Wittgenstein's Use of Examples	p. 667
Aspect Perception and Philosophical Difficulty	p. 697
Writing Philosophy as Poetry: Literary Form in Wittgenstein	p. 714
Wittgenstein and the Moral Dimension of Philosophical Problems	p. 729
Religion, Aesthetics, Ethics
Wittgenstein on Religious Belief	p. 755
Wittgenstein on Aesthetics	p. 775
Wittgenstein and Ethics	p. 796
Index	p. 819
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