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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495180703321

Autore

Moser Anna Aloisia

Titolo

Kant, Wittgenstein, and the performativity of thought / / Anna Aloisia Moser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]

℗♭2021

ISBN

3-030-77550-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 158 pages)

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Thought and thinking - Philosophy

Performative (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Kants Acts of the Mind and Wittgensteins Projection Method -- Part I Kant and the "I Think" as the Facticity of Thought -- 2. A Connection Between Thought and Thing A Priori -- 3. Judging as Connecting Thought and Thing -- 4. Synthesis and Bringing the Manifold of Intuition into an Image -- Part II Wittgensteins Picture Theory as a Method of Projection -- 5. The Form of the Proposition -- 6. Projection Method -- 7. Logic Degree Zero -- Part III Kants Schematizing and Wittgensteins Picturing or Projecting as Performativity -- 8. Kant, Synthesis, and Schema -- 9. Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Use -- 10. Performativity and the Act of Thinking -- 11. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the idea that there is a certain performativity of thought connecting Kants Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgensteins Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. On this view, we make judgments and use propositions because we presuppose that our thinking is about something, and that our propositions have sense. Kants requirement of an a priori connection between intuitions and concepts is akin to Wittgensteins idea of the general propositional form as sharing a form with the world. Aloisia Moser argues that Kant speaks about acts of the mind, not about static categories. Furthermore, she elucidates the Tractatus logical form as a projection method that turns into a so-called zero method, whereby propositions are merely the scaffolding of



the world. In so doing, Moser connects Kantian reflective judgment to Wittgensteinian rule-following. She thereby presents an account of performativity centering neither on theories nor methods, but on the application enacting them in the first place. Aloisia Moser is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Philosophy at the Catholic Private University in Linz, Austria.