Wittgenstein's Method Neglected Aspects

by Baker, Gordon P.; Morris, Katherine J.

• ISBN13: 9781405152808
• ISBN10: 140515280X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is a collection of the key articles written by renowned Wittgenstein scholar, G.P. Baker, on Wittgenstein's later philosophy, published posthumously. Following Baker's death in 2002, the volume has been edited by collaborator and partner, Katherine Morris. Contains articles previously only available in other languages, and one previously unpublished paper. Completely distinct from the widely-known work Baker did with P.M.S. Hacker in the Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell Publishing, 1980-1996).

Author Biography

G.P. Baker was a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford from 1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co-author with P.M.S. Hacker of a number of books on Wittgenstein, including the first two volumes of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell Publishing 1980-1996), and with Katherine Morris of Descartes’ Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes.

Katherine Morris is a Lecturer and Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford University. She and G.P. Baker co-authored Descartes’ Dualism (1996). She has published a number of articles on Wittgenstein, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Descartes, and is the author of ‘Sartre’ (forthcoming from Blackwell Publishing).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(18)
Katherine J. Morris
Part I Reading Wittgenstein	19	(122)
Methodological Concepts	21	(1)
Philosophical Investigations §122: Neglected Aspects	22	(30)
Some Remarks on `Language' and `Grammar'	52	(21)
Wittgenstein's `Depth Grammar'	73	(19)
Wittgenstein on Metaphysical/Everyday Use	92	(17)
Applications: the `Private Language Argument'	108	(1)
The Reception of the Private Language Argument	109	(10)
Wittgenstein's Method and the Private Language Argument	119	(11)
The Private Language Argument (Extract: Final Section)	130	(11)
Part II Wittgenstein and Waismann	141	(153)
The Analogy with Psychoanalysis	143	(1)
`Our' Method of Thinking about `Thinking'	144	(35)
A Vision of Philosophy	179	(26)
Wittgenstein's Method and Psychoanalysis	205	(19)
Aspects and Conceptions	223	(1)
Italics in Wittgenstein	224	(36)
Wittgenstein: Concepts or Conceptions?	260	(19)
The Grammar of Aspects and Aspects of Grammar	279	(15)
Bibliography of the Works of Gordon Baker	294	(5)
General Bibliography	299	(6)
Index	305