Wittgenstein In America

Author : Timothy G. McCarthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199241590
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein in America written by Timothy G. McCarthy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable collection explores the legacy of Wittgenstein's work in contemporary American philosophy. The contributors (including several celebrated philosophers) take a variety of approaches to Wittgenstein; they discuss such topics as rule-following, realism about mathematics, the method of the Tractatus, the relation between style and content in Wittgenstein, and his distinction between sense and nonsense. Wittgenstein also is discussed in relation to subsequent philosophers such as Quine and Kripke.

Author : Timothy G. McCarthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199241590
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein in America written by Timothy G. McCarthy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable collection explores the legacy of Wittgenstein's work in contemporary American philosophy. The contributors (including several celebrated philosophers) take a variety of approaches to Wittgenstein; they discuss such topics as rule-following, realism about mathematics, the method of the Tractatus, the relation between style and content in Wittgenstein, and his distinction between sense and nonsense. Wittgenstein also is discussed in relation to subsequent philosophers such as Quine and Kripke.

Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022603741X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This New Yet Unapproachable America written by Stanley Cavell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and Wittgenstein. Beginning with an introductory essay that places his own work in a philosophical and historical context, Cavell guides his reader through his thought process when composing and editing his lectures while making larger claims about the influence of institutions on philosophers, and the idea of progress within the discipline of philosophy. In “Declining Decline,” Cavell explains how language modifies human existence, looking specifically at the culture of Wittgenstein’s writings. He draws on Emerson, Thoreau, and many others to make his case that Wittgenstein can indeed be viewed as a “philosopher of culture.” In his final lecture, “Finding as Founding,” Cavell writes in response to Emerson’s “Experience,” and explores the tension between the philosopher and language—that he or she must embrace language as his or her “form of life,” while at the same time surpassing its restrictions. He compares finding new ideas to discovering a previously unknown land in an essay that unabashedly celebrates the power and joy of philosophical thought.

Author : Richard A. Jones
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761861343
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Book written by Richard A. Jones and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Richard A. Jones highlights the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work for contemporary African American and Africana philosophy. The Black Book investigates the epistemic, linguistic, and political grounds from which inspiration might be drawn.

Author : Lars Albinus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110455064
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer written by Lars Albinus and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Wittgenstein's remarks on Frazer's The Golden Bough and represents a collaboration of scholars within philosophy and the study of religion. For the first time, specialized investigations of the philological and philosophical aspects Wittgenstein's manuscripts are combined with the outlook of philosophical anthropology and ritual studies. In the first section of the book Wittgenstein's remarks are presented and discussed in light of his Nachlass and relevant lecture-notes by G.E. Moore, reproduced in this book as facsimiles. The second section deals with the cultural and philosophical background of the early remarks, while the third section focuses specifically on the general problem of understanding as being a main issue of these remarks. The fourth section concentrates on the philosophical development characteristic of the later remarks. Finally, the fifth section reviews Wittgenstein's opposition to Frazer, and the ramifications of his remarks, in light of ritual studies. The book is intended for scholars in philosophy and religious studies, as well as for the general reader with an academic interest in philosophy and the philosophy of religion.

Author : Jerry H. Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and Metaphor written by Jerry H. Gill and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth Savickey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319453106
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein’s Investigations written by Beth Savickey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of Wittgenstein’s descriptive, improvisational, and performative art of philosophical investigation. In addition to clarifying the nature of Wittgenstein’s grammatical investigations, this study highlights several neglected aspects of his work: its humour and playfulness, its collaborative nature, and its emphasis on the imagination. These aspects often become distorted under the pressure of theory and argumentation, resulting in interpretations that equate grammatical investigation with confession, therapy, or a common sense view of the world. After presenting Wittgenstein’s art of investigation in part one, this study challenges these dominant and influential interpretations in part two. The volume examines Wittgenstein’s mottos, forewords, and dedications. It looks at the art of his philosophical and grammatical investigations, linking it to drama and improvisation. The book discusses the complexity and subtlety of Wittgenstein’s response to Augustine in the opening of the Investigations, and Wittgenstein’s response to Moore’s defence of common sense in On Certainty. The book also examines three kinds of therapeutic readings: those that compare Wittgenstein’s philosophy to psychoanalysis, those that compare his philosophy to therapy generally, and those that describe philosophy itself as an illness or as the cause of illness.

Author : D. Moyal-Sharrock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230505341
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty written by D. Moyal-Sharrock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of papers devoted to Ludwig Wittgenstein's cryptic but brilliant, On Certainty . This work, Wittgenstein's last, extends the thinking of his earlier, better known writings, and in so doing, makes the most important contribution to epistemology since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - a claim the essays in this volume help to demonstrate. The essays have been grouped under four headings, reflecting current approaches to the work: the Framework, Transcendental, Epistemic, and Therapeutic readings.

Author : Aryeh Botwinick
Publisher : University Press of Amer
ISBN 13 : 9780819114310
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and Historical Understanding written by Aryeh Botwinick and published by University Press of Amer. This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kelly Dean Jolley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492374
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein written by Kelly Dean Jolley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein's complex and demanding work challenges much that is taken for granted in philosophical thinking as well as in the theorizing of art, theology, science and culture. Each essay in this collection explores a key concept involved in Wittgenstein's thinking, relating it to his understanding of philosophy, and outlining the arguments and explaining the implications of each concept. Concepts covered include grammar, meaning and meaning-blindness language-games and private language, family resemblances, psychologism, rule-following, teaching and learning, avowals, Moore's Paradox, aspect seeing, the meter-stick, and criteria. Students new to Wittgenstein and readers interested in developing their understanding of specific aspects of his philosophical work will find this book very welcome.