Wittgenstein and His Interpreters

Guy Kahane is Deputy Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He works mainly in moral philosophy. Kahane is also co-editor of Enhancing Human Capacities (2011). Edward Kanterian is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent. Previously he held a lectureship at Trinity College and Jesus College, Oxford. He works in theoretical philosophy and history of modern philosophy. He is the author of Analytic Philosophy (2004), Frege (2012) and has a forthcoming book on Kant’s God.Oskari Kuusela is Senior Lecturer at School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Struggle Against Dogmatism: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy (2008) and Key Terms in Ethics (2011) as well as the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein (2011).

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• Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgements xiList of Abbreviations xiiIntroduction 1Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and Oskari Kuusela1 Perspectives on Wittgenstein: An Intermittently 37Opinionated SurveyHans-Johann Glock2 Wittgenstein’s Method: Ridding People of 66Philosophical PrejudicesKatherine Morris3 Gordon Baker’s Late Interpretation of Wittgenstein 88P. M. S. Hacker4 The Interpretation of the Philosophical Investigations: 123Style, Therapy, Nachlass Alois Pichler5 Ways of Reading Wittgenstein: Observations on 145Certain Uses of the Word ‘Metaphysics’Joachim Schulte6 Metaphysical/Everyday Use: A Note on a Late 169Paper by Gordon BakerHilary Putnam7 Wittgenstein and Transcendental Idealism 174A. W. Moore8 Simples and the Idea of Analysis in the Tractatus 200Marie McGinn9 Words, Waxing and Waning: Ethics in/and/of the 221Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Stephen Mulhall10 The Uses of Wittgenstein’s Beetle: Philosophical 248Investigations §293 and Its InterpretersDavid G. Stern11 Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist? The Reception 269of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of MathematicsRay Monk12 Wittgenstein and Ethical Naturalism 295Alice CraryBibliography 320Name Index 345Subject Index 350