Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity: Volume 2 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Essays and Exegesis §§185-242, 2nd Edition

by G. P. Baker (Late of University of Oxford); P. M. S. Hacker (University of Oxford, UK )

• ISBN13: 9781444315707
• ISBN10: 1444315706
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules.Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein's conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction to Volume 2

Abbreviations

Analyticalcommentary

Two fruits upon one tree

The continuation of the Early Draft into philosophy of mathematics

Hidden isomorphism

A common methodology

The Flatness of philosophical grammar

Followinga Rule§§185-242

Introduction to the exegesis

Rules and grammar

The Tractatusand rules of logical syntax

From logical syntax to philosophical grammar

Rules and rule-formulations

Philosophy and grammar

The scope of grammar

Some morals

Exegesis§§185-8

Accord with a rule

Initial compass bearings

Accord and the harmony between language and reality

Rules of inference and logical machinery

Formulations and explanations of rules by examples

Interpretations, Fitting and grammar

Further misunderstandings

Exegesis §§189-202

Following rules, mastery of techniques, and practices

Following a rule

Practices and techniques

Doing the right thing and doing the same thing

Privacy and the community view

On not digging below bedrock

Private linguists and 'private linguists' - Robinson Crusoe sails again

Is a language necessarily shared with a community of speakers?

Innate knowledge of a language

Robinson Crusoe sails again

Solitary cavemen and monologuists

Private languages and 'private languages'

Overview

Exegesis§§203-37

Agreement in definitions, judgements and forms of life

The scaffolding of facts

The role of our nature

Forms of life

Agreement: consensus of human beings and their actions

Exegesis§§238-42

Grammar and necessity

Setting the stage

Leitmotifs

External guidelines

Necessary propositions and norms of representation

Concerning the truth and falsehood of necessary propositions

What necessary truths are about

Illusions of correspondence: ideal objects, kinds of reality and ultra-physics

The psychology and epistemology of the a priori

Knowledge

Belief

Certainty

Surprise

Discoveries and conjectures

Compulsion

Propositions of logic and laws of thought

Alternative forms of representation

The arbitrariness of grammar

A kinship to the non-arbitrary

Proof in mathematics

Conventionalism

Index

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