Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity Vol. 2 : Volume 2 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Essays and Exegesis 185-242

Hacker, P. M. S., Baker, Gordon P.

ISBN 10: 1405184086 / ISBN 13: 9781405184083

Editore: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2009

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• Titolo: Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity Vol. 2 : Volume 2 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Essays and Exegesis 185-242
• Editore: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1405184086
• ISBN 13: 9781405184083
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: 2nd Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 1,603 libbre

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The Second Edition of <i>Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity</i> (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein&#8217;s <i>Philosophical Investigations</i>) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules. <ul type="disc"> <li>Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following</li> <li>Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein&#8217;s conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity</li> <li>Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the <i>Nachlass</i></li> <li>Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years</li> </ul>

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<b>G. P. Baker</b> was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford from 1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co-author with P.M.S. Hacker of the first two volumes of the four-volume <i>Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations</i> (Blackwell, 1980&#8211;96), author of <i>Wittgenstein, Frege and the Vienna Circle</i> (Blackwell, 1988) and, with Katherine Morris, of <i>Descartes' Dualism</i> (1996). He also wrote numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes. <p><b>P. M. S. Hacker</b> is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume <i>Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations</i>, the first two volumes co-authored with G.P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980&#8211;96) and of <i>Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy</i> (Blackwell, 1996). His recent works include <i>The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience</i> (Blackwell, 2003) and <i>History of Cognitive Neuroscience</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), both co-authored with M. R. Bennett. Most recently he has published <i>Human Nature: The Categorial Framework</i> (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature. Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the 4^th edition and extensively revised translation of Wittgenstein's <i>Philosophical Investigations</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).</p>