The New Wittgenstein

by Crary,Alice; Crary,Alice

• ISBN13: 9780415173193
• ISBN10: 0415173191
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The New Wittgensteinoffers a major reevaluation of Wittgenstein's thinking. This stellar collection of original essays by the "third wave" of Wittgenstein critics presents a significantly different portrait of the philosopher, not as a proponent of metaphysical theories but as an advocate of philosophy as therapy--a means of helping us grasp the essence of thought and language by attending to our everyday forms of expression. Boldly criticizing standard interpretations and offering unorthodox perspectives, these controversial essays will change the way we look at Wittgenstein's entire body of work. Contributors: Stanley Cavell, David Cerbone, James Conant, Alice Crary, Cora Diamond, David Finkelstein, Juliette Floyd, P.M.S. Hacker, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, Rupert Read, Martin Stone, Edward Witherspoon.

Author Biography

Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, at Harvard University David R. Cerbone is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University Alice Crary is a Tutor in Philosophy at Harvard University James Conant is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago Cora Diamond is Kenan Professor Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia David H. Finkelstein is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University Juliet Floyd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University P.M.S. Hacker is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St.John's College, Oxford John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh Hilary W. Putnam is Cogan University Professor at Harvard University Rupert Read is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England) Martin Stone is Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He also teaches in the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke Edward Witherspoon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(18)
PART I Wittgenstein's later writings: the illusory comfort of an external standpoint	19	(128)
Excursus on Wittgenstein's vision of language	21	(17)
Stanley Cavell
Non-cognitivism and rule-following	38	(15)
John McDowell
Wittgenstein on rules and platonism	53	(21)
David H. Finkelstein
What `There can be no such thing as meaning anything by any word' could possibly mean	74	(9)
Rupert Read
Wittgenstein on deconstruction	83	(35)
Martin Stone
Wittgenstein's philosophy in relation to political thought	118	(29)
Alice Crary
PART II The Tractatus as forerunner of Wittgenstein's later writings	147	(242)
Ethics, imagination and the method of Wittgenstein's Tractatus	149	(25)
Cora Diamond
Elucidation and nonsense in Frege and early Wittgenstein	174	(44)
James Conant
Rethinking mathematical necessity	218	(14)
Hilary Putnam
Wittgenstein, mathematics and philosophy	232	(30)
Juliet Floyd
Does Bismarck have a beetle in his box? The private language argument in the Tractatus	262	(31)
Cora Diamond
How to do things with wood: Wittgenstein, Frege and the problem of illogical thought	293	(22)
David R. Cerbone
Conceptions of nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein	315	(38)
Edward Witherspoon
A dissenting voice	351	(2)
Was he trying to whistle it?	353	(36)
P. M. S. Hacker
Bibliography	389	(6)
Index	395