The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy : Necessity, Intelligibility, and Normativity.
- 1st ed.
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- SUNY Series in Philosophy Series .
- SUNY Series in Philosophy Series .
Intro -- THE UNITY OF WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHY -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. NECESSITY AND INTELLIGIBILITY IN THE TRACTATUS -- 1.1. Possibility and Necessity in the Tractatus -- 1.2. What's Color Got to Do with It? -- 1.3. The Myth of "Hidden Bodies" -- 1.4. Deflationism and Realism in the Tractatus -- 2. FROM PICTURES TO YARDSTICKS THE COLORFUL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE TRACTARIAN VIEW OF LANGUAGE -- 2.1. Let the Phenomena Speak for Themselves! -- 2.2. The Emergence of the Satzsystem Conception of Language -- 3. THE CALCULUS VIEW OF LANGUAGE: MEANING AND RULES -- 3.1. Rules as Constitutive of Meaning -- 3.2. Local Holism, Verificationism, and the Proliferation Problem -- 3.3. Idealizing Language: The Autonomy of Rules -- 4. THE "UNBRIDGEABLE GULF" BETWEEN RULE AND APPLICATION -- 4.1. Frege on Applicability -- 4.2. The "Internal Relation" between Rule and Application -- 4.3. Is Grammar Up to Me? -- 5. INTERNAL RELATIONS IN ACTION: FOLLOWING A RULE VERSUS CONFORMING WITH IT -- 5.1. Searching for a Differentia Specifica -- 5.2. The Irrelevance of Learning: Reasons and Causes -- 5.3. From Possible Applications to Actual Uses -- 6. NORMATIVITY IN PRACTICE: LEARNING AND TECHNIQUES -- 6.1. Psychologism and "Logical Madness" -- 6.2. Learning and Necessity -- 6.3. Back to the Rough Ground! -- 6.4. The Role of the Community: Contextualism and Quietism in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy -- NOTES -- Introduction -- 1. Necessity and Intelligibility in the Tractus -- 2. From Pictures to Yardsticks -- 3. The Calculus of Language -- 4. The "Unbridgeable Gulf" between Rule and Application -- 5. Internal Relations in Action -- 6. Normativity in Practice -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Explores the stable core of Wittgenstein's philosophy as developed from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigations.