Wittgenstein
Subtitle: connections and controversies
By: P.M.S. Hacker.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Wittgenstein-an Overview; title: 2. Wittgenstein and the Autonomy of Humanistic Understanding; title: 3. Developmental Hypotheses and Perspicuous Representations: Wittgenstein on Frazer's Golden Bough Postscript; title: 4. Was he Trying to Whistle it?; title: 5. When the Whistling had to Stop; title: 6. Naming, Thinking, and Meaning in the Tractatus Postscript; title: 7. Frege and the Early Wittgenstein; title: 8. Frege and the Later Wittgenstein; title: 9. Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: The Exaltation and Deposition of Ostensive Definition *; title: 10. On Misunderstanding Wittgenstein: Kripke's Private Language Argument *; title: 11. Malcolm on Language and Rules'; title: 12. On Carnap's Elimination of Metaphysics; title: 13. On Strawson's Rehabilitation of Metaphysics; title: Index.