Pichler / Säätelä Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032891-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 461 Seiten

Reihe: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society – New Series

This wide-ranging collection of essays contains eighteen original articles by authors representing some of the most important recent work on Wittgenstein. It deals with questions pertaining to both the interpretation and application of Wittgenstein’s thought and the editing of his works. Regarding the latter, it also addresses issues concerning scholarly electronic publishing. The collection is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction which lays out the content and arguments of each contribution. Contributors: Knut Erik Tranøy, Lars Hertzberg, Georg Henrik von Wright, Marie McGinn, Cora Diamond, James Conant, David G. Stern, Eike von Savigny, P.M.S. Hacker, Hans-Johann Glock, Allan Janik, Kristóf Nyíri, Antonia Soulez, Brian McGuinness, Anthony Kenny, Joachim Schulte, Herbert Hrachovec, Cameron McEwen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pichler, Alois

Säätelä, Simo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Note on the second edition;12
2;Acknowledgements;14
3;Introduction;16
4;Wittgenstein and therelation between lifeand philosophy;76
4.1;1. My relation to Wittgenstein;76
4.2;2. Two questions;77
4.3;3. “To stop doing philosophy”;79
4.4;4. What is it to be a philosopher?;83
5;Trying to keepphilosophy honest;85
5.1;1. The marginalization of Wittgenstein’s philosophy;85
5.2;2. Work on oneself;88
5.3;3. Bringing words back;89
5.4;4. A one-sided diet;93
5.5;5. The rabbit case;96
5.6;6. Pretensions are a mortgage;98
6;Remarks on Wittgenstein’s use of the terms “Sinn”, “sinnlos”, “unsinnig”, “wahr”, and “Gedanke” in the Tractatus;101
6.1;1. Sense and contingency;101
6.2;2. Sense and truth-value;102
6.3;3. Senseless truths?;102
6.4;4. Thoughts;103
6.5;5. “Legitimately constructed proposition”;104
6.6;6. Nonsensical Tractatus;105
7;Wittgenstein’s early philosophy of language and the idea of ‘the single great problem’;110
7.1;1. A ‘single great problem’;110
7.2;2. The significance of Frege and Russell;112
7.3;3. Russell’s theory of judgement;115
7.4;4. Frege’s conception of truth;121
7.5;5. The content of molecular propositions;125
7.6;6. Shared preconceptions;126
7.7;7. The propositions of logic;129
7.8;8. ‘Quite general propositions’;133
7.9;9. Inference;138
8;Peter Winch on theTractatus and the unity of Wittgenstein’s philosophy;144
8.1;1. Winch, Malcolm and the unityof Wittgenstein’s philosophy;144
8.2;2. Opposed understandings of the Tractatus;149
8.3;3. Thinking and projecting;153
8.4;4. What’s in a name?;160
8.5;5. Winch and formalism;164
8.6;6. Another problem with Winch’s reading;169
8.7;7. The significance of Winch’s philosophical practice;173
9;Wittgenstein’s Later Criticism of the Tractatus;175
9.1;1. A dispute about how to read the Tractatus;175
9.2;2. The first list;185
9.3;3. The second list;190
9.4;4. The third list;202
10;How many Wittgensteins?;208
10.1;1. Debates in Wittgenstein scholarship;208
10.2;2. The queer grammar of talk about Wittgenstein;209
10.3;3. Who wrote the Philosophical Investigations:Nine answers in search of a philosopher;216
10.4;4. Style and context;223
11;Taking avowals seriously:The soul a public affair;233
11.1;1. Preliminary;233
11.2;2. Use determines meaning;234
11.3;3. First person psychological utterances;236
11.4;4. Nonverbal expressions of mental states;239
11.5;5. Research bibliography;244
12;Of knowledge and of knowing that someone is in pain;247
12.1;1. First person authority: the received explanation;247
12.2;2. Knowledge: the point of the concept;251
12.3;3. Knowledge: the semantic field;256
12.4;4. Methodological constraints;260
12.5;5. Some conditions of sense forthe operators ‘A knows’ and ‘I know’;263
12.6;6. The cognitive assumption: sensations;265
12.7;7. Objections to the non-cognitive account;272
13;Wittgenstein and history;280
13.1;1. Wittgenstein and history;280
13.2;2. Varieties of historicism;281
13.3;3. Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy;285
13.4;4. Wittgenstein and historicism;292
13.5;5. Wittgenstein and genealogy;299
14;Impure reason vindicated;307
14.1;1. Rationality, Wittgenstein and philosophy of science;307
14.2;2. Rule-following and the preconditions of experience;311
14.3;3. Aristotle’s conception of practical knowledge;314
14.4;4. How practice takes care of itself: The Common Law;319
14.5;5. Leaving things as they are;320
15;Wittgenstein’s philosophy of pictures;325
15.1;1. Wittgenstein’s philosophy of pictures;325
15.2;2. What the printed corpus offers;328
15.3;3. Using the Nachlass: towards a re-interpretation;345
15.4;4. A philosophy of post-literacy;355
16;A case of early Wittgensteinian dialogism: Stances on the impossibility of “Red and green in the same place”;357
16.1;1. Dialogical style and musicality;357
16.2;2. Three (four) voices;360
16.3;3. “Our” answer to the phenomenologist;363
16.4;4. Conceptual characters, Denkstile, and the author;365
16.5;5. A faceless kind of voice – the grammatical garb of the (absent) philosopher;368
17;Wittgenstein: Philosophy and literature;370
17.1;1. The relation between form and content;370
17.2;2. The Tractatus;372
17.3;3. Philosophical Investigations;377
17.4;4. The form of publishing;382
18;A brief history of Wittgenstein editing;385
18.1;1. Wittgenstein’s will;385
18.2;2. The seventies;387
18.3;3. The eighties;389
18.4;4. The nineties;393
18.5;5. The situation today;396
19;What is a work by Wittgenstein?;400
19.1;1. The Wittgenstein editions;400
19.2;2. Wittgenstein’s way of working;403
19.3;3. What is a work by Wittgenstein?;405
20;Evaluating the Bergen Electronic Edition;408
20.1;1. The Bergen edition and Wittgenstein scholarship;408
20.2;2. Technical and other troubles;409
20.3;3. Prospects with XML;415
20.4;4. The Bergen edition and digital scholarship;419
21;Wittgenstein in digitalform: Perspectivesfor the future;421
21.1;1. The digital turn;421
21.2;2. Wittgenstein as test bed forelectronic humanities scholarship;423
21.3;3. Perspectives for the future;429
22;Bibliography andreference system;434
23;Authors and Abstracts;443
24;The editors;458
25;Name index;459