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
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.