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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784055203321

Autore

Williams Meredith <1947->

Titolo

Wittgenstein, mind, and meaning [[electronic resource] ] : toward a social conception of mind / / Meredith Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-280-18660-7

9786610186600

0-203-21704-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

128.2

128/.2/092

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Language and languages - Philosophy

Philosophy and cognitive science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-311) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Against the philosophic tradition; Wittgenstein on representations, privileged objects, and private languages; Private states and public practices: Wittgenstein and Schutz on intentionality; Wittgenstein, Kant, and the ~metaphysics of experience~; Language learning and the representational theory of mind; Postscript to Chapter 4; Social norms and narrow content; A new direction; Rules, community, and the individual; The philosophical significance of learning in the later Wittgenstein

The etiology of the obvious: Wittgenstein and the elimination of indeterminacyWittgenstein's rejection of scientific psychology; Vygotsky's social theory of mind; Notes; Bibliography; Index of quotations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning offers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental. This book addresses both Wittgenstein's later works as well as contemporary issues in philosophy of mind. It



provides fresh insight into the later Wittgenstein and raises vital questions about the foundations of cognitivism and its wider implications for psychology and cognitive science.