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Title: The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind (Representation and Mind) by Cora Diamond ISBN: 0-262-54074-6 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 02 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: As Good As It Gets
Comment: This is one of the best texts on Wittgenstein ever written by a leading figure in the field. The prose here is clear and rigorous. Each chapter is excellent.

I recommend the following chapters: Intro. 1, "Philosophy and the Mind," Intro II, "W. and Metaphysics," Ch. 1, "Realism and the Realistic Spirit," Ch 2, "Frege and Nonsense," Ch 3, "What Nonsense Might Be," Ch 7, "Wright's W," Ch 8, "Secondary Sense," and Ch 9, "The Face of Necessity."

This book earns my highest recommendation.

I also recommend: The New Wittgenstein, David Pears, David Stern, The Cambridge Companion, W. in America, and the respective articles by Dummett, Putnam, Stroud, and McDowell. Kripke is also worth looking at, and in this regard, see Gibbs on rule-following.

Rating: 5
Summary: Ethics, Wittgenstein-style
Comment: Wittgenstein scarcely touched on moral philosophy, and while there are occasional attempts at Wittgensteinian ethics, most of them are, well, just not very good. Reading Diamond's book was the first time I've wanted to say, "If Wittgenstein had written on ethics, this is what it might have looked like."

Rating: 5
Summary: Go the bloody HARD way
Comment: Rush Rhees writes: "In philosophy there are no 'means of transport' by which you can reach your objective. No developments outside of philosophy, for instance, can make philosophy any easier...There can be nothing like the service which computers bring to mathematics...The philosophical difficulties have to be met and worked through. There is no sort of 'simplification', which will make them any less difficult."

Cora Diamond goes the bloody hard way and works her way through the problems. Hopefully you can work through them with her and find clarity and grace. Silence in philosophy is akin to recovery in physical therapy, it only comes when we meet our ailments head on.

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