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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813703603321

Titolo

Wittgenstein and analytic philosophy : essays for P.M.S. Hacker / / edited by Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-383-03507-5

1-282-05308-6

9786612053085

0-19-155001-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

HackerP. M. S (Peter Michael Stephan)

GlockHans-Johann <1960->

HymanJohn

Disciplina

146.4

192

Soggetti

Analysis (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Contributors and Abstracts; Abbreviations for Works by Wittgenstein; Wittgenstein's Knight Move: Hacker on Wittgenstein's Influence on Analytic Philosophy; Wittgenstein and Frege's Logical Investigations; 'Moses': Wittgenstein on Names; Analytic Truths and Grammatical Propositions; Back to the Rough Ground: Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language; The Private Language Argument; Language-Games and Language: Rules, Normality Conditions and Conversation; Wittgenstein's Ethics: Boundaries and Boundary Crossings; The Lessons of Life: Wittgenstein, Religion and Analytic Philosophy

Hard and Easy Questions about ConsciousnessCognitive Scientism; Knowing How To and Knowing That; Action, Content and Inference; P. M. S. Hacker: A Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

13 leading contributors offer essays in honour of Peter Hacker. They discuss issues in the interpretation of Wittgenstein, investigate central topics in the history of analytic philosophy, and explore and assess Wittgensteinian ideas about language, mind, action, ethics, and religion.