Blind obedience : paradox and learning in the later Wittgenstein /

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Williams, Meredith, 1947-
Format: Printed Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Schlagworte:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, > 1889-1951. > Philosophische Untersuchungen.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, > 1889-1951.
Philosophy.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Structure and content of the philosophical investigations
  • Wittgenstein's metaphilosophy
  • The method of description
  • Wittgenstein's distinctive arguments : from mistake to paradox
  • Two domains : linguistic mastery vs. initiate learning
  • The structure of the book
  • Playing the game
  • The Fregean picture of language
  • Wittgenstein's rejection of Frege's idea
  • Builders game : language or signaling?
  • Dummett's challenge : sense vs. force
  • The domestication of reference
  • The problem of normative similarity 1 : ostension
  • Rejection of Quine's picture of language
  • Objects and paradigms
  • Ostensive teaching and social practices
  • Logical form and the paradox of thought
  • The subliming of logic
  • Frege's idea and the paradox of thought
  • Davidson's challenge : meaning and logical form
  • The limits of systematicity
  • Meaning and the paradox of interpretation
  • The problem of normative similarity 2 : rules
  • Two pleas for interpretation
  • The community view and reductionism
  • The individualist view and mystification normativity and the threat of regularism
  • Rules and regularities
  • The public basis of normativity
  • The social basis of normativity : the negative argument
  • The social basis of normativity : the positive argument
  • Necessity and the threat of psychologism
  • Two forms of holism
  • Stage-setting : conventions without decisions
  • Background technique : necessity without metaphysics
  • Normativity and "psychologized" necessity
  • Learning, trust, and certainty
  • The paradoxes of consciousness
  • The problem of normative similarity 3 : consciousness
  • The epistemology of subjectivity : paradox of self-knowledge
  • The ontology of subjectivity : paradox of sensation
  • Cartesian thought experiments and the expressivist view
  • Criteria, deception, and the new problem of other minds.

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