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Wittgenstein and the Practice of Philosophy (Paperback)
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Wittgenstein and the Practice of Philosophy (Paperback)
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Wittgenstein and the Practice of Philosophy introduces
Wittgenstein's philosophy to senior undergraduates and graduate
students. Its pedagogical premise is that the best way to
understand Wittgenstein's thought is to take seriously his
methodological remarks. Its interpretive premise is that those
methodological remarks are the natural result of Wittgenstein's
rejection of his early view of the ground of value, including
semantic value or meaning, as something that must lie "outside the
world." This metaphysical view of meaning is replaced in his
transitional writings with a kind of conventionalism, according to
which meaning is made possible by the existence of grammatical
conventions that are implicit in our linguistic practices. The
implicit nature of these conventions makes us vulnerable to a
special kind of confusion that results from lacking a clear view of
the norms that underlie our linguistic practices. This special
confusion is characteristic of philosophical problems, and the task
of philosophy is the therapeutic one of alleviating confusion by
helping us to see our grammatical norms clearly. This development
of this therapeutic view of philosophy is traced from
Wittgenstein's early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus through his
transitional writings and lectures to his great masterwork,
Philosophical Investigations, and his final reflections on
knowledge and scepticism in On Certainty. Wittgenstein's
discussions of naming, family resemblances, rule-following and
private language in Philosophical Investigations are all examined
as instances of this sort of method, as is his discussion of
knowledge in On Certainty. The book concludes by considering some
objections to the viability of Wittgenstein's method and
speculating on how it might be extended to a discussion of moral
value to which Wittgenstein never explicitly returns.
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