Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context

New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2013)
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This volume collects P. M. S. Hacker's papers on Wittgenstein and related themes written over the last decade. Hacker provides comparative studies of a range of topics--including Wittgenstein's philosophy of psychology, conception of grammar, and treatment of intentionality--and defends his own Wittgensteinian conception of philosophy

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B3376.W564.H2443 2013

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9780199674824   0198823355   0199674825
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Philosophy: Contribution not to Human Knowledge but to Human Understanding

Philosophy has generally been held to be a cognitive discipline. But there is no agreed body of philosophical knowledge to show for more than two thousand years of endeavour. This has been explained by reference to the difficulty of the subject; or by reference to the idea that as soon as ... see more

The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology

This chapter traces the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of psychology. The Tractatus is little concerned with the subject. One can but glean what his meta-psychological commitments were from occasional asides and correspondence. They concern meaning something by words and sentence... see more

Passing by the Naturalistic Turn: on Quine's cul-de-sac

It has been remarked that the distinctive development in philosophy over the past thirty-five years has been a naturalist turn away from the a priori methods of traditional philosophy to a conception of philosophy as continuous with natural science. This is a reversion to the conception of... see more

Analytic Philosophy: What, Whence, and Whither?

This chapter gives an overview of analytic philosophy. Analytic philosophy should be viewed as a historical concept signifying a distinctive movement in twentieth-century philosophy, with overlapping connections between its phases. Analytic philosophy passed through various phases: logical... see more

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