Wittgenstein: Mind, Meaning and Metaphilosophy

by Frascolla, Pasquale; Marconi, Diego; Voltolini, Alberto

• ISBN13: 9780230219410
• ISBN10: 0230219411
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

There are many many books on Wittgenstein, and some will address subjects that overlap with our book-but our book has a specific focus on trying to evaluate Wittgenstein's thoughts on the mind, on meaning and philosophy and see how they stand up to critisicms by contemporary philosophers, and to ask the question - was he wrong?

Author Biography

PASQUALE FRASCOLLA is a Professor at the Department of Historic, Linguistic and Anthropological Sciences, University of Basilicata in Italy.

DIEGO MARCONI is a Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Turin in Italy.

ALBERTO VOLTOLINI is Associate Professor at the Univerity of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Mind
Verificationism and Wittgenstein's View of Mind	p. 13
Reading-Machines, Feelings of Influence, Experiences of Being Guided: Wittgenstein on Reading	p. 31
Reasons and Causes	p. 46
Was Wittgenstein Wrong about Intentionality?	p. 67
Meaning
Does Language Require Conventions?	p. 85
Regularities, Rules, Meanings, Truth Conditions, and Epistemic Norms	p. 113
Wittgenstein and Necessary Facts	p. 139
Wittgenstein and Frege on Proper Names and the Context Principle	p. 166
Sceptical Conclusions about Epistemological Analyticity	p. 188
Metaphilosophy
An Adequacy Condition for the Interpretation of the Tractatus Ontology	p. 215
Method and Metaphilosophy in the Philosophical Investigations	p. 229
Concluding Remarks
Farewell Thoughts on Wittgenstein	p. 255
References	p. 273
Index	p. 283
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