evolution of the private language argument
By: Keld Stehr Nielsen.
Series: Ashgate Wittgensteinian studies
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754656296
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951; Private language problem; Analysis (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Between the wars; title: The dispute between Carnap and Neurath; title: The Vienna circle before 1932; title: The unity of science; title: Carnap's private language argument; title: Neurath's private language argument; title: Private language and the Vienna circles agenda; title: Wittgenstein's early concerns about privacy; title: The transition to physicalism; title: The phenomenological language argument; title: Consequences of the phenomenological argument; title: The motivation of the early private language arguments; title: Wittgenstein in transition  the later material; title: The 1941 private object argument; title: The difference in approach; title: Wittgenstein's contemporaries and the privacy issue; title: Post-war effects of philosophical investigations; title: Reviews and reactions; title: The reductio argument; title: The solitary language argument; title: The external argument; title: Pain-expressions as criteria; title: Malcolm on use and ordinary language; title: The availability of an argument; title: Post-war doubts about cartesianism; title: The reductio argument and verificationism; title: Malcolm's account of criteria; title: Sensations and sensation language; title: Ordinary sensation language; title: Cook on privacy and ordinary language; title: The ordinary language methodology; title: Reinterpreting Wittgenstein; title: Lessons from ordinary language philosophy; title: Language within philosophy; title: The problem with private ostensive definitions; title: Approaching philosophical investigations anew; title: The change of focus; title: Overcoming verificationism; title: The new role of language in philosophy; title: The rule-following considerations; title: The problem of following a rule; title: The Kripkean private language argument; title: Making room for the community; title: The sceptical paradox and the picture theory; title: Revisiting philosophical investigations; title: The memory-criteria argument; title: Strategic clarifications; title: The demand for criteria : language essentials; title: The manometer-beetle argument; title: Wittgenstein's target; title: The notion of use; title: Private language arguments, Wittgenstein and contemporary philosophy.