Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind

by Ellis, Jonathan; Guevara, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780199737666
• ISBN10: 0199737665
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Philosophical questions about the mind preoccupied much of Wittgenstein's later writing, and his contribution to them is deep and wide-ranging, bearing upon philosophical issues concerning sense-experience, concept formation, perception, introspection, the science of psychology, aspect perception, the self, the understanding of rules, the relation between mind and brain, artificial intelligence, and many other subjects of current concern. According to a growing number of eminent philosophers, however, many of Wittgenstein's most important insights have still not been properly absorbed by contemporary philosophical debates on these topics. If anything, work on these subjects is less informed by Wittgenstein's examples and discussions than ever before. In this volume, philosophers from inside and outside of Wittgensteinian circles explore Wittgenstein's treatment of philosophical questions about the mind or issues in contemporary philosophy of mind upon which Wittgenstein's philosophy may have significance. Bringing to bear their broad range of perspectives on his philosophy, these philosophers collectively demonstrate how Wittgenstein revolutionized the philosophy of mind.

Author Biography

Jonathan Ellis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California ,Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley (2002). He works primarily in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology.

Daniel Guevara is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (1992). He works primarily in the fields of moral philosophy and moral psychology, with a strong interest in Kant.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. ix
Foreword: On Getting to Know a State or Process Better: Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Meaning and Understanding	p. 19
Seeing an Aspect and Seeing under an Aspect	p. 37
Wittgenstein on the Role of Experience in Understanding Language	p. 61
Rule-Following Revisited	p. 73
The Private Language Argument One More Time	p. 91
Rules, Privacy, and Physicalism	p. 107
Conceiving of Conscious States	p. 145
Sensation, Introspection, and the Phenomenal	p. 183
Das Überraschende: Wittgenstein on the Surprising in Mathematics	p. 225
Pain: A Philosophical Borderland	p. 259
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology: Methodological Reflections	p. 277
Contributors	p. 297
Index	p. 299
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