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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein by Hans D. Sluga, David G. Stern ISBN: 0-521-46591-5 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Wittgenstein
Comment: As an introduction to making sense of Wittgenstein's work (and his contribution to 20th C. Philosophy), or as a scholarly apparatus, this is a superb collection of articles. It places the reader square in the middle of current discussion in Wittgenstein studies, and this anthology is a good entry into the threshold of that research. With this, you enter into a world of pain [I just had to say that. Somehow it is appropriate to juxtapose W. with quotes from the The Big Lebowski (a film)].
Wittgenstein is a difficult and at times obscure philosopher. However, this anthology and Crary's New W. (Routledge) makes the best case for W's relevance to the philosophy of math and the philosophy of mind.
Some of the more important articles included here are: Stern, "Availability of W's Philosophy," Cavell, "Notes and Afterthoughts," Stroud, "Mind, Meaning and Practice" (excellent), Sluga (on W's subjectivism), Fogelin, Ricketts on W's Tractatus, and the following figures on math and math necessity: Diamond, Gerrard, and Glock.
I highly recommend this anthology. I also recommend: Crary's New W; W. in America; McDowell's articles on rule-following; Stroud, Mind Meaning and Practice (Oxford UP); Dummett, Putnam, and Diamond's Realistic Spirit. Also see David Stern's book on W, as well as Diamond's Realistic Spirit.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Window on Wittgenstein
Comment: Wittgenstein is considered among the most important philosophers of the 20th century, he is certainly among the most difficult. But he is also among the most worthwhile. He was concerned, among other matter, with the relationship of language to the world, of the ontological status of mind and consciousness, and of showing how language itself helped create false philosophical problems. "When language takes a holiday," as Wittgenstein puts it, we can create all sorts of philosophical problems - the mind-body problem may be one of these if Wittgenstein is correct.
There are a number of good essays in this collection, but Hans Sulga's "Whose House is That?: Wittgenstein on the Self" may be the best. Sulga explores how Wittgenstein's analysis of language led him to a rejection of Cartesian substantialism - or the idea that consciousness, the soul, or the mind, was an immaterial substance - a "soul atamon" as Nietzsche would put it - tethered to a physical body and capable of existing independently of that body. But Wittgenstein also rejected opposing views such as materialism, behaviorism, and reductionism as well. Indeed, he shows how such opposing camps actually share some of the same underlying assumptions. All this leads Wittgenstein to a radical and important new way of understanding subjectivity. For those interested in an accessible introduction to Wittgenstein's thinking on these matters this volume is a good place to start - particularly Sulga's essay.
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Title: Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks) by Marie McGinn, Ludwig Philosophische Untersuchungen Wittgenstein ISBN: 0415111919 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger by Charles Guignon ISBN: 0521385970 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, With a Revised English Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Elizabeth Anscombe ISBN: 0631231277 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: The New Wittgenstein by Alice Marguerite Crary, Rupert Read ISBN: 0415173191 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Kant by Paul Guyer ISBN: 0521367689 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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