| Physical description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 375 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Wittgenstein-an Overview -- Wittgenstein and the Autonomy of Humanistic Understanding -- Developmental Hypotheses and Perspicuous Representations: Wittgenstein on Frazer's Golden Bough -- Was he Trying to Whistle it? -- When the Whistling had to Stop -- Naming, Thinking, and Meaning in the Tractatus -- Frege and the Early Wittgenstein -- Frege and the Later Wittgenstein -- Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: The Exaltation and Deposition of Ostensive Definition -- On Misunderstanding Wittgenstein: Kripke's Private Language Argument -- Malcolm on Language and Rules' -- On Carnap's Elimination of Metaphysics -- On Strawson's Rehabilitation of Metaphysics. |
| Summary |
This volume consists of 13 essays on different aspects of the philosophy of Wittgenstein. They examine the intellectual and cultural backdrop to his work and consider some of the controversies which Wittgenstein's work has provoked. |
| Language notes |
English. |
| Subject |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
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Llibres electrònics. |
| ISBN |
9780191529740 (electronic bk.) |
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0191529745 (electronic bk.) |
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9780191602245 |
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0191602248 |
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019924569X 9780199245697 |
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0199271135 |
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9780199271139 |
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1281944343 |
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9781281944344 |
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9786611944346 |
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6611944346 |
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