Blind obedience
Subtitle: the structure and content of Wittgenstein's later philosophy
By: Meredith Williams.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780415553001; 9780203870815
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951; Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951; Philosophy; Language and languages -- Philosophy; Semantics (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Structure and content of the philosophical investigations; title: Wittgenstein's metaphilosophy; title: The method of description; title: Wittgenstein's distinctive arguments : from mistake to paradox; title: Two domains : linguistic mastery vs. initiate learning; title: The structure of the book; title: Playing the game; title: The Fregean picture of language; title: Wittgenstein's rejection of Frege's idea; title: Builders game : language or signaling?; title: Dummett's challenge : sense vs. force; title: The domestication of reference; title: The problem of normative similarity 1 : ostension; title: Rejection of Quine's picture of language; title: Objects and paradigms; title: Ostensive teaching and social practices; title: Logical form and the paradox of thought; title: The subliming of logic; title: Frege's idea and the paradox of thought; title: Davidson's challenge : meaning and logical form; title: The limits of systematicity; title: Meaning and the paradox of interpretation; title: The problem of normative similarity 2 : rules; title: Two pleas for interpretation; title: The community view and reductionism; title: The individualist view and mystification normativity and the threat of regularism; title: Rules and regularities; title: The public basis of normativity; title: The social basis of normativity : the negative argument; title: The social basis of normativity : the positive argument; title: Necessity and the threat of psychologism; title: Two forms of holism; title: Stage-setting : conventions without decisions; title: Background technique : necessity without metaphysics; title: Normativity and "psychologized" necessity; title: Learning, trust, and certainty; title: The paradoxes of consciousness; title: The problem of normative similarity 3 : consciousness; title: The epistemology of subjectivity : paradox of self-knowledge; title: The ontology of subjectivity : paradox of sensation; title: Cartesian thought experiments and the expressivist view; title: Criteria, deception, and the new problem of other minds.