Starting With Wittgenstein

by Tejedor, Chon

• ISBN13: 9781847061423
• ISBN10: 1847061427
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-31
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Taking readers through key themes in Wittgenstein's thought, this is an essential introduction to one of the most important thinkers in 20th Century Philosophy.

Author Biography

Chon Tejedor is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
The Earlier Wittgenstein	p. 5
Language and Logic	p. 7
Introduction	p. 7
Sentences and Propositions	p. 7
Essential and Accidental Features of Propositions	p. 14
Logical Analysis	p. 16
A Purely Logical Language - with no Examples!	p. 20
Elementary Propositions and Names; States of Affairs and Objects	p. 23
Simple Meanings and the Determinacy of Sense	p. 26
Sense and Meaning	p. 33
Logical Analysis and Truth-Tables	p. 37
Conclusion	p. 44
Thoughts and the Self	p. 45
Introduction: Philosophy - Not Psychology	p. 45
Thoughts and Propositions as Pictures	p. 49
The Concept of Self	p. 62
Solipsism and the Self	p. 67
Conclusion	p. 71
Logic and Ethics	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Traditional Ethics and the Influence of Schopenhauer	p. 75
Logical Clarity and the Fundamental Contingency of the World	p. 83
The Ethical Point of the Tractatus	p. 89
Conclusion	p. 96
Conclusion to Part I	p. 98
The Later Wittgenstein	p. 103
Language and Use	p. 105
Introduction	p. 105
The Demise of the Tractatus	p. 106
Concepts without Essences: The Notion of Family Resemblance	p. 111
The Augustinian Picture of Language	p. 114
Language-Games and the Uniformity Assumption	p. 118
Naming and Ostension	p. 126
Meaning and Use	p. 130
Conclusion	p. 133
Rules and Meaning	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
Rules, Mind and Meaning	p. 137
Meaning Revisited: the Notion of Practice	p. 150
Conclusion	p. 154
Sensations and Private Languages	p. 156
Introduction	p. 156
Private Languages and Sensations	p. 158
Wittgenstein's Critique: Knowledge and Infallibility	p. 165
Conclusion: Private Language	p. 172
Conclusion to Part II	p. 174
Notes	p. 176
Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 180
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