{"product_id":"wittgenstein-understanding-and-meaning-isbn-9781405199254","title":"Wittgenstein: Understanding And Meaning","description":"This is a much revised and extended new edition of \u003ci\u003ePart II\u003c\/i\u003e of the first volume of the monumental four-volume \u003ci\u003eAnalytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was written\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFollowing Baker’s death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has rewritten many sections of exegesis completely\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePart II: Exegesis §§1-184\u003c\/i\u003e has been thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein’s \u003ci\u003eNachlass\u003c\/i\u003e, and includes many new interpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of the \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e and an overview of its structure\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe accompanying \u003ci\u003ePart I: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e now includes two completely new essays: 'Meaning and Use' and 'The Recantation of a Metaphysician'; the essays: ‘The Augustinian Conception of Language’, ‘The Language-Game Method’, ‘Contextual Dicta and Contextual Principles’, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Surveyability and Surveyable Representations’, and ‘Truth and the General Propositional Form’ are redrafted and expanded, incorporating new source materials and new arguments, as well as taking into account debates of the last quarter of a century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe revisions will ensure that this remains the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein’s masterpiece for the foreseeable future\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgements.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part II: Exegesis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote to the paperback edition 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe history of the composition of the \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn overview of the structure and argument of the \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExegesis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Title.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Motto.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 The Augustinian conception of language (§§1–27(a)).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Illusions of naming: ostensive definition, logically proper names, simples and samples, and analysis (§§27(b)–64).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Family resemblance, determinacy of sense, and the quest for essence (§§65–88).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Philosophy (§§89–133).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 The general propositional form (§§134–42).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Understanding and ability (§§143–84).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eG.P.Baker\u003c\/b\u003e was a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford from 1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co-author with P.M.S. Hacker of the first two volumes of the four-volume \u003ci\u003eAnalytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1980–96), author of \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein, Frege and the Vienna Circle\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1988) and with Katherine Morris of \u003ci\u003eDescartes’ Dualism\u003c\/i\u003e (1996). He also wrote numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eP.M.S. Hacker\u003c\/b\u003e is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume \u003ci\u003eAnalytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e, the first two volumes co-authored with G.P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980–96) and of \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein’s Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1996). His other previous works include \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2003) and \u003ci\u003eHistory of Cognitive Neuroscience\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), both co-authored with M.R. Bennett. Most recently he has published \u003ci\u003eHuman Nature: The Categorical Framework\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature.Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the 4\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e edition and extensively revised translation of Wittgenstein’s \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e Published to widespread acclaim between 1980 and 1996, the monumental four volume \u003ci\u003eAnalytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e has become the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein’s masterpiece. This revised edition of the first volume, \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e, which itself comprises two parts (\u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eExegesis §§1–184\u003c\/i\u003e), takes into account much material that was unavailable when the first edition was written. Following G.P. Baker’s death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has thoroughly revised both parts, rewriting many sections completely and often proposing fresh interpretations. \u003ci\u003ePart I: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e now includes two new essays: ‘Meaning and Use’ and ‘The Recantation of a Metaphysician’, and most of the previous essays have been  rewritten and expanded. \u003ci\u003ePart II: Exegesis §§1\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003ci\u003e184\u003c\/i\u003e has been exhaustively reworked in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein’s \u003ci\u003eNachlass\u003c\/i\u003e. 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