Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning

by Williams,Meredith

• ISBN13: 9780415287562
• ISBN10: 0415287561
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-10-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaningoffers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental. Williams's theme throughout is the anti-individualism that she takes to underlie Wittgenstein's criticism of Cartesian thought. This book addresses both Wittgenstein's later works as well as contemporary issues in philosophy of mind thought and lays the foundation for a social conception of mind. It provides fresh insight into the later Wittgenstein and raises vital questions about the foundations of cognitivism and its wider implications for psychology and cognitive science.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
List of abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(12)
PART I Against the philosophic tradition	13	(142)
Wittgenstein on representations, privileged objects, and private languages	15	(19)
Private states and public practices: Wittgenstein and Schutz on intentionality	34	(26)
Wittgenstein, Kant, and the ``metaphysics of experience''	60	(22)
Language learning and the representational theory of mind	82	(32)
Postscript to Chapter 4	101	(13)
Social norms and narrow content	114	(41)
PART II A new direction	155	(127)
Rules, community, and the individual	157	(31)
The philosophical significance of learning in the later Wittgenstein	188	(28)
The etiology of the obvious: Wittgenstein and the elimination of indeterminacy	216	(24)
Wittgenstein's rejection of scientific psychology	240	(20)
Vygotsky's social theory of mind	260	(22)
Notes	282	(24)
Bibliography	306	(6)
Index of quotations	312	(2)
Index	314