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Thought's Footing - A Theme in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Paperback)
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Thought's Footing - A Theme in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Paperback)
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Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the
ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is
also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations:
Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a
unified view of the work as a whole. His methodological
starting-point is to see Wittgenstein's work as a response to
Frege's. The central question is: how does thought get its footing?
How can the thought that things are a certain way be connected to
things being that way? Wittgenstein departs from Frege in holding
that there are indefinitely many ways of filling out (giving
content to) the notion of truth.. The truth of a thought or
utterance is connected with the consequences of thinking or saying
it. That is the point of Wittgenstein's introduction of the notion
of a language game. The second key theme is this: a representation
of things as being a certain way cannot take the right form for
truth-bearing without a background of agreement in judgements: its
form must belong to thinkers of a given kind. The third key theme
is that the proprietary perceptions of a given sort of thinker as
to what would be a case of judging when there is a particular way
for things to be is not subject to criticism from outside it. Along
the way Travis gives his own distinctive take on such topics as the
problem of singular thought, the notion of a proposition,
rule-following, sense and nonsense, the possibility of private
language, and the representational content of experience. The
result is an original and stimulating demonstration of the
continuing value of Wittgenstein's work for central debates in
philosophy today.
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