Wittgenstein

This volume provides a wide-ranging collection of newly-commissioned essays on Wittgenstein by internationally established philosophers.

List of Contributors vii

Preface xi

List of Abbreviations and Primary Sources xxi

1 The Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy 1
Hans-Johann Glock

2 The So-called Picture Theory: Language and the World in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 26
Hidé Ishiguro

3 The Logical System of the Tractatus 47
Howard Mounce

4 Wittgenstein on Intentionality 59
Erich Ammereller

5 Meaning and Understanding 94
Bede Rundle

6 Following a Rule 119
Robert L. Arrington

7 Thinking 138
Oswald Hanfling

8 The Will 156
Stewart Candlish

9 Private Language and Private Experience 174
Severin Schroeder

10 The Inner and the Outer 199
Michel ter Hark

11 Wittgenstein and “I” 224
David Bakhurst

12 Seeing Aspects 246
Stephen Mulhall

13 Philosophy of Mathematics 268
Pasquale Frascolla

14 Autonomy 289
Hubert Schwyzer

15 Wittgenstein on Scepticism and Certainty 305
A. C. Grayling

16 Philosophy 322
P. M. S. Hacker

17 Ethics, Faith and ‘What Can Be Saved’ 348
D. Z. Philips

Bibliography 367

Index 374

"Fifty years after the death of Ludwig Wittgenstein, it is clear that his contribution to philosophy will be as important in the twenty-first century as it was in the twentieth. In this volume Hans-Johann Glock has assembled a number of critical essays by distinguished scholars which will make a weighty contribution to the as yet incomplete reception of Wittgenstein. Writing from a variety of standpoints, the authors offer interpretations of the Wittgensteinian canon which range between the traditional and the innovative, but always invite serious consideration, and which offer a re-evaluation of contemporary trends in philosophy in the light of Wittgenstein's insights."
Anthony Kenny, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He has been Visiting Professor at Queen's University, Ontario and a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Bielefeld University. He is author of A Wittgenstein Dictionary (Blackwell 1996) and Quine and Davidson (2003); editor of The Rise of Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell 1997), Strawson and Kant (2003); and co-editor, with Robert L. Arrington, of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (1991) and Wittgenstein and Quine (1996). Exploring all of the central themes of Wittgenstein's oeuvre, this volume includes discussion of core topics such as meaning and use, rule following, the picture theory of language and the nature of philosophy. It also contains topics in which Wittgenstein's influence is becoming more apparent, such as intentionality and ethics. The book provides a wide-ranging collection of newly commissioned essays on Wittgenstein by internationally established philosophers, including Robert L. Arrington, Stewart Candlish, P. M. S. Hacker, Oswald Hanfling, Hidé Ishiguro, Howard Mounce, Bede Rundle and D. Z. Phillips. The introductory essay explains the various perspectives of the contributors and offers an introduction to Wittgenstein's work and its development.

The essays can profitably be used in conjunction with the selections from Wittgenstein's work assembled in A. J. P. Kenny's The Wittgenstein Reader.