Wittgenstein in America
By: edited by Timothy McCarthy and Sean C. Stidd
Contributors: McCarthy, Timothy; Stidd, Sean C
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951 -- Congresses; Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951; Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951 -- Influence
Genres: Congresses
Description: "Wittgenstein in America is a collection of essays exploring the legacy of Wittgenstein's work in contemporary American philosophy. The contributors including several eminent 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 is discussed in relation to subsequent philosophers such as Quine and Kripke." "This will be essential reading for specialists in Wittgenstein, and will interest many other philosophers besides."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Based on a conference held in Sept. 1995 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index
Table of contents: title: Two conceptions of Die Überwindung der Metaphysik: Carnap and early Wittgenstein / James Conant; title: The etiology of the obvious: Wittgenstein and the elimination of indeterminacy / Meredith Williams; title: The sense is where you find it / Lars Hertzberg; title: How long is the standard meter in Paris? / Cora Diamond; title: Was Wittgenstein really an anti-realist about mathematics? / Hilary Putnam; title: The expression of belief / Peter Winch; title: Wittgenstein's "Plan for the treatment of psychological concepts" / David H. Finkelstein; title: Morality, human understanding, and the limits of language / Ben Tilghman; title: The Investigations' everyday aesthetics of itself / Stanley Cavell