The Private Language Argument

Author : Keld Stehr Nielsen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754656296
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of the Private Language Argument written by Keld Stehr Nielsen and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a look at early discussions of the private language argument in the Vienna Circle and the influence of Wittgenstein's ideas. This book examines the relation between the early and later Wittgenstein on this subject.

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674954014
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language written by Saul A. Kripke and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents " Preface " Introductory " The Wittgensteinian Paradox " The Solution and the 'Private Language' Argument " Postscript Wittgenstein and Other Minds " Index.

Author : Stephen Mulhall
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199556741
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Private Language written by Stephen Mulhall and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers a new way of interpreting one of the most famous and contested texts in modern philosophy. He sheds new light on a central controversy concerning Wittgenstein's early work by showing its relevance to a proper understanding of the later work.

Author : John V. Canfield
Publisher : Articles-Garlan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private Language Argument written by John V. Canfield and published by Articles-Garlan. This book was released on 1986 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Egidi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940173691X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein: Mind and Language written by R. Egidi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein: Mind and Language brings together a collection of previously unpublished essays which offer a systematic account of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and contribute in an absolutely new and original way to illuminating his later conception of human perceptive, emotional and cognitive language from both a theoretical and an historical point of view. The focus is on the fundamental categories of philosophical grammar, on the analysis of intentionality, of belief and Moore's paradox, on certainty and doubt, on will, memory, sensations and emotions, as well as on the theory of aspects and private language and the relationship with relativism and psychologism. In the recent literature there are undoubtedly numerous qualified publications dedicated to the themes of philosophical psychology as they emerge from Wittgenstein's Nachlaß and from his writings on this subject published in the last decade. This book, however, provides the essential points of reference of Wittgenstein's late treatment of psychological concepts in the context of the general features of his early philosophy of science and language and in the framework of the trends of his time. The book is of special interest to scholars and students, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, logicians, historians of contemporary philosophy and science.

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191520128
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Sense written by Charles Travis and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1989-03-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Uses of Sense provides a novel account of Wittgenstein's view of language as expressed in the Philosophical Investigations. On the account, Wittgenstein's view is a radical break with a still-dominant Fregean tradition. Travis applies this account to show the significance of private language and of other major themes in the Investigations, such as family resemblance and language games. Wittgenstein uses the idea of private language for a thought experiment. What is the experiment meant to test? Travis suggests that it is two pictures of the having of semantic properties, by whatever items might do so, that are at stake. One picture is Fregean. The other is opposed to it in denying a certain fixity in the semantic properties of an item which, for example, might permit simply defining some items as the bearers of such-and-such semantics. On Wittgenstein's picture, the semantics of any item is variable across occasions for viewing it or using it. This variability arises through the dependence of any item's semantics on its users and their uses of it. This dependence requires publicity of a sort excluded by private language. If items may still have semantics privately, Travis argues, then Wittgenstein's picture may not be compulsory. But if semantics collapses under such unnatural conditions, then, in ways Wittgenstein indicates, that shows something fundamentally mistaken in the Fregean approach.

Author : Daniele Moyal-Sharrock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351881175
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Wittgenstein written by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology establishes the existence of a distinct and important post-Investigations Wittgenstein, uncovering the overlooked treasures of the final corpus and crystallising key perceptions of what his last thought was achieving. Speaking of a 'third Wittgenstein', this book seeks to correct the traditional bipartite conception of Wittgenstein's thought into his Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations by focusing on his neglected last masterpiece, On Certainty, and works contemporaneous with it: Remarks on Colour, Last Writings in the Philosophy of Psychology, and Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology. Leading international Wittgenstein scholars reveal why On Certainty should be recognised as one of Wittgenstein's three great works. This sustained examination shows that the third Wittgenstein breaks new ground with insights unprecedented in both his own work and philosophy more broadly, giving us keys to the solution and dissolution of problems that have plagued philosophy since Descartes, such as philosophical scepticism and the mind-body problem. Wittgenstein's ultimate and revised positions with regard to epistemology, foundationalism, 'grammar', naturalism, the psychology of language, and psychological indeterminacy are clearly delineated. This book also provides new and illuminating accounts of difficult concepts, such as patterns of life, experiencing meaning, meaning blindness, lying and pretence.

Author : David Pears
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199247706
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy written by David Pears and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Keld Stehr Nielsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351890115
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of the Private Language Argument written by Keld Stehr Nielsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of the Private Language Argument presents a continuous view of modern analytical philosophy by telling the history of one of its central strands. It is an in-depth history of this well known philosophical argument, the evolution of Wittgenstein's thoughts and its influence on analytical philosophy of mind and language. Nielsen looks at early discussions of the private language argument in the Vienna Circle and the influence of Wittgenstein's ideas and examines the relation between the early and later Wittgenstein on this subject. He discusses which influential versions of the private language argument have been presented in the fifty years since Philosophical Investigations was published and how they relate to Wittgenstein's thoughts, and considers how the role and the interpretation of the argument, and Wittgenstein's philosophy, changed along with changes in the conception of the nature of analytic philosophy.

Author : Hanne Appelqvist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351202650
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language written by Hanne Appelqvist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as the debate between the so-called traditional and resolute interpretations, Wittgenstein’s stance on transcendental idealism, and the philosophical import of Wittgenstein’s latest work On Certainty. This collection includes thirteen original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which Wittgenstein appeals to the limit of language at different stages of his philosophical development. The essays connect the idea of a limit of language to the most important themes discussed by Wittgenstein—his conception of logic and grammar, the method of philosophy, the nature of the subject, and the foundations of knowledge—as well as his views on ethics, aesthetics, and religion. The essays also relate Wittgenstein’s thought to his contemporaries, including Carnap, Frege, Heidegger, Levinas, and Moore.