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The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and
Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical
commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical
Investigations) now includes extensively revised and
supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and
controversial remarks on following rules.
Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one
new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of
rule-following
Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein's
conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity
Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of
taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the
Nachlass
Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following
that have raged over the past 20 years
Auteur
G. P. Baker was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford from
1967 until his death in 2002.
P. M. S. Hacker is an Emeritus Research Fellow at St
John's College, Oxford, and Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Kent at Canterbury.
Résumé
The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules.
Contenu
About the Authors ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction to Volume 2 xii
Abbreviations xvi
ANALYTICAL COMMENTARY 1
I Two fruits upon one tree 3
The continuation of the Early Draft into philosophy of
mathematics 3
Hidden isomorphism 7
A common methodology 12
The flatness of philosophical grammar 19
FOLLOWING A RULE §§185-242 23
Introduction to the exegesis 25
II Rules and grammar 41
The Tractatus and rules of logical syntax 41
From logical syntax to philosophical grammar 43
Rules and rule-formulations 46
Philosophy and grammar 55
The scope of grammar 59
Some morals 65
Exegesis §§185-8 68
III Accord with a rule 81
Initial compass bearings 81
Accord and the harmony between language and reality 83
Rules of inference and logical machinery 88
Formulations and explanations of rules by examples 90
Interpretations, fitting and grammar 93
Further misunderstandings 95
Exegesis §§189-202 98
IV Following rules, mastery of techniques, and practices
135
Following a rule 135
Practices and techniques 140
Doing the right thing and doing the same thing 145
Privacy and the community view 149
On not digging below bedrock 156
V Private linguists and 'private linguists'
Is a language necessarily shared with a community of
speakers? 157
Innate knowledge of a language 158
Robinson Crusoe sails again 160
Solitary cavemen and monologuists 163
Private languages and 'private languages' 165
Overview 166
Exegesis §§203-37 169
VI Agreement in definitions, judgements and forms of life
211
The scaffolding of facts 211
The role of our nature 215
Forms of life 218
Agreement: consensus of human beings and their actions
223
Exegesis §§238-42 231
VII Grammar and necessity 241
Setting the stage 241
Leitmotifs 245
External guidelines 258
Necessary propositions and norms of representation 262
Concerning the truth and falsehood of necessary propositions
270
What necessary truths are about 280
Illusions of correspondence: ideal objects, kinds of reality
and ultra-physics 283
The psychology and epistemology of the a priori 289
(i) Knowledge 289
(ii) Belief 291
(iii) Certainty 294
(iv) Surprise 298
(v) Discoveries and conjectures 300
(vi) Compulsion 305
Propositions of logic and laws of thought 308
Alternative forms of representation 320
The arbitrariness of grammar 332
A kinship to the non-arbitrary 338
Proof in mathematics 345
Conventionalism 356
Index 371