Title: Wittgenstein : rules, grammar and necessity : essays and exegesis of 185-242 /
Authors: Baker, Gordon P.; Hacker, P. M. S.; Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Ludwig,; Philosophy.; Language and languages Philosophy; Semantics (Philosophy)
Abstract: The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules.: Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following; Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein's conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity; Features updates to the textual exegesis.
Contents: Analytical commentary -- Fruits upon one tree -- The continuation of the early draft into philosophy of mathematics -- Hidden isomorphism -- A common methodology -- The flatness of philosophical grammar -- Following a rule 185-242 -- Introduction to the exegesis -- Rules and grammar -- The tractatus and rules of logical syntax -- From logical syntax to philosophical grammar -- Rules and rule-formulations -- Philosophy and grammar -- The scope of grammar -- Some morals -- Exegesis 185-8 -- Accord with a rule -- Initial compass bearings -- Accord and the harmony between language and reality -- Rules of inference and logical machinery -- Formulations and explanations of rules by examples -- Interpretations, fitting and grammar -- Further misunderstandings -- Exegesis 189-202 -- Following rules, mastery of techniques and practices -- Following a rule -- Practices and techniques -- Doing the right thing and doing the same thing -- Privacy and the community view --^