Wittgenstein's Later Theory of Meaning

Imagination and Calculation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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By exploring the significance of Wittgenstein’s later texts relating to the philosophy of language, Wittgenstein’s Later Theory of Meaning offers insights that will transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopher. Explores the significance of Wittgenstein’s later texts relating to the philosophy of language, and offers new insights that transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopherProvides original interpretations of the systematic points about language in Wittgenstein’s later writings that reveal his theory of meaningEngages in close readings of a variety of Wittgenstein’s later texts to explore what the philosopher really had to say about ‘kinds of words’ and ‘parts of speech’Frees Wittgenstein from his reputation as an unsystematic thinker with nothing to offer but ‘therapy’ for individual cases of philosophical confusion

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-29
Mått:160 x 239 x 16 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781118642306

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Mer om författaren

Hans Julius Schneider is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His publications include Phantasie und Kalkül (1992) and Religion (2008). He also served as a co-editor of the journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie for a number of years and has made several contributions to this publication as well as numerous other philosophical essay collections.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments viiForeword by Charles Taylor viiiIntroduction 11 The Fregean Perspective and Concomitant Expectations One Brings to Wittgenstein 72 How a Language Game Becomes Extended 213 Kinds of Expression 354 “Function” in Language Games and in Sentential Contexts 475 The Sound of a Sentence I: Singing from the Score 676 Projection: No Mere Mapping but a Creative Activity 837 The Sound of a Sentence II: Surface Grammar 988 Complexity 1049 An Integration of Wittgenstein and Frege? 11510 Dummett’s Doubts and Frege’s Concept of “Sense” 12811 Wittgenstein on “Communicating Something” 13712 “Grammatical Sense” and “Syntactic Metaphor”: A Wittgensteinian Solution 15213 A “Theory of Meaning” – In What Sense? 166Index 180