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Wittgenstein and Psychology - A Practical Guide (Paperback)
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Wittgenstein and Psychology - A Practical Guide (Paperback)
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Wittgenstein made use of his insights into the nature and powers of
language to search out the source of conceptual confusions in the
foundations of mathematics and in philosophy of psychology. Once he
has established the use account of language, his Philosophical
Investigations opens out into an extensive coverage of
psychological phenomena and the concepts with which we identify and
manage them. In this book Harr nd Tissaw display Wittgenstein's
analysis of the 'grammar' of the most important of these concepts
in a systematic and accessible way. Previous studies of the
psychological aspects of Wittgenstein's writings, admirable as
exegeses of his thought, have paid little attention to the relevant
psychology. Here, the 'adjacent' theories and empirical
investigations from mainstream psychology have been described in
sufficient detail to show how Wittgenstein's work impinges on
psychology as it has actually been practiced. In using this book,
philosophers will be able to get a sense of the relevance of
Wittgenstein's philosophical psychology to the development of
psychology as a science. Psychologists will be able to see how to
use Wittgenstein's insights to enrich and discipline their attempts
to gain an understanding of human thinking, feeling, acting and
perceiving, the domain of psychology as science. The book includes
an historical overview of the sources of Wittgenstein's philosophy
in the Vienna of the last years of Austro-Hungary, as well as a
brief presentation of the main themes of his Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus as it anticipated computational models of
cognition. Student use is emphasized with frequent summaries and
self-test questionnaires.
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