Wittgenstein : The Philosopher and His Works.
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- Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Ser. ; v.2 .
Intro -- Note on the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Wittgenstein and therelation between lifeand philosophy -- 1. My relation to Wittgenstein -- 2. Two questions -- 3. "To stop doing philosophy" -- 4. What is it to be a philosopher? -- Trying to keepphilosophy honest -- 1. The marginalization of Wittgenstein's philosophy -- 2. Work on oneself -- 3. Bringing words back -- 4. A one-sided diet -- 5. The rabbit case -- 6. Pretensions are a mortgage -- Remarks on Wittgenstein's use of the terms "Sinn", "sinnlos", "unsinnig", "wahr", and "Gedanke" in the Tractatus -- 1. Sense and contingency -- 2. Sense and truth-value -- 3. Senseless truths? -- 4. Thoughts -- 5. "Legitimately constructed proposition" -- 6. Nonsensical Tractatus -- Wittgenstein's early philosophy of language and the idea of 'the single great problem' -- 1. A 'single great problem' -- 2. The significance of Frege and Russell -- 3. Russell's theory of judgement -- 4. Frege's conception of truth -- 5. The content of molecular propositions -- 6. Shared preconceptions -- 7. The propositions of logic -- 8. 'Quite general propositions' -- 9. Inference -- Peter Winch on theTractatus and the unity of Wittgenstein's philosophy -- 1. Winch, Malcolm and the unityof Wittgenstein's philosophy -- 2. Opposed understandings of the Tractatus -- 3. Thinking and projecting -- 4. What's in a name? -- 5. Winch and formalism -- 6. Another problem with Winch's reading -- 7. The significance of Winch's philosophical practice -- Wittgenstein's Later Criticism of the Tractatus -- 1. A dispute about how to read the Tractatus -- 2. The first list -- 3. The second list -- 4. The third list -- How many Wittgensteins? -- 1. Debates in Wittgenstein scholarship -- 2. The queer grammar of talk about Wittgenstein. 3. Who wrote the Philosophical Investigations:Nine answers in search of a philosopher -- 4. Style and context -- Taking avowals seriously:The soul a public affair -- 1. Preliminary -- 2. Use determines meaning -- 3. First person psychological utterances -- 4. Nonverbal expressions of mental states -- 5. Research bibliography -- Of knowledge and of knowing that someone is in pain -- 1. First person authority: the received explanation -- 2. Knowledge: the point of the concept -- 3. Knowledge: the semantic field -- 4. Methodological constraints -- 5. Some conditions of sense forthe operators 'A knows' and 'I know' -- 6. The cognitive assumption: sensations -- 7. Objections to the non-cognitive account -- Wittgenstein and history -- 1. Wittgenstein and history -- 2. Varieties of historicism -- 3. Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy -- 4. Wittgenstein and historicism -- 5. Wittgenstein and genealogy -- Impure reason vindicated -- 1. Rationality, Wittgenstein and philosophy of science -- 2. Rule-following and the preconditions of experience -- 3. Aristotle's conception of practical knowledge -- 4. How practice takes care of itself: The Common Law -- 5. Leaving things as they are -- Wittgenstein's philosophy of pictures -- 1. Wittgenstein's philosophy of pictures -- 2. What the printed corpus offers -- 3. Using the Nachlass: towards a re-interpretation -- 4. A philosophy of post-literacy -- A case of early Wittgensteinian dialogism: Stances on the impossibility of "Red and green in the same place" -- 1. Dialogical style and musicality -- 2. Three (four) voices -- 3. "Our" answer to the phenomenologist -- 4. Conceptual characters, Denkstile, and the author -- 5. A faceless kind of voice - the grammatical garb of the (absent) philosopher -- Wittgenstein: Philosophy and literature -- 1. The relation between form and content -- 2. The Tractatus. 3. Philosophical Investigations -- 4. The form of publishing -- A brief history of Wittgenstein editing -- 1. Wittgenstein's will -- 2. The seventies -- 3. The eighties -- 4. The nineties -- 5. The situation today -- What is a work by Wittgenstein? -- 1. The Wittgenstein editions -- 2. Wittgenstein's way of working -- 3. What is a work by Wittgenstein? -- Evaluating the Bergen Electronic Edition -- 1. The Bergen edition and Wittgenstein scholarship -- 2. Technical and other troubles -- 3. Prospects with XML -- 4. The Bergen edition and digital scholarship -- Wittgenstein in digitalform: Perspectivesfor the future -- 1. The digital turn -- 2. Wittgenstein as test bed forelectronic humanities scholarship -- 3. Perspectives for the future -- Bibliography andreference system -- Authors and Abstracts -- The editors -- Name index.
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