Wittgenstein [[electronic resource] ] : understanding and meaning . Part 1 Essays / / G.P. Baker & P.M.S. Hacker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910876877303321
• Autore: Baker Gordon P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2005
• ISBN: 1-281-32273-3; 9786611322731; 0-470-75280-7; 0-470-75279-3
• Edizione: [2nd., extensively rev. ed. /]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Collana: Analytical commentary on the Philosophical investigations ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): HackerP. M. S (Peter Michael Stephan)
• Disciplina: 192
• Soggetti: Philosophy; Language and languages - Philosophy; Semantics (Philosophy)
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction to Part I: Essays; Abbreviations; I The Augustinian conception of language (1); 1. Augustine's picture; 2. The Augustinian family; (a) word-meaning; (b) correlating words with meanings; (c) ostensive explanation; (d) metapsychological corollaries; (e) sentence-meaning; 3. Moving off in new directions; 4. Frege; 5. Russell; 6. The Tractatus; II Explanation (6); 1.Training, teaching and explaining; 2. Explanation and meaning; 3. Explanation and grammar; 4. Explanation and understanding; III The language-game method (7)1. The emergence of the game analogy; 2. An intermediate phase: comparisons with invented calculi; 3. The emergence of the language-game method; 4. Invented language-games; 5. Natural language-games; IV Descriptions and the uses of sentences (18); 1. Flying in the face of the facts; 2. Sentences as descriptions of facts: surface-grammatical paraphrase; 3. Sentences as descriptions: depth-grammatical analysis and descriptive contents; 4. Sentences as instruments; 5. Assertions, questions, commands make contact in language; V Ostensive definition and its ramifications (28)1. Connecting language and reality; 2. The range and limits of ostensive explanations; 3. The normativity of ostensive definition; 4. Samples; 5. Misunderstandings resolved; 6. Samples and simples; VI Indexicals (39); VII Logically proper names (39); 1. Russell; 2. The Tractatus; 3. The criticisms of the Investigations: assailing the motivation; 4. The criticisms of the Investigations: real proper names and simple names; VIII Meaning and use (43); 1. The concept of meaning; 2. Setting the stage; 3. Wittgenstein: meaning and its internal relations4. Qualifications; IX Contextual dicta and contextual principles (50); 1. The problems of a principle; 2. Frege; 3. The Tractatus; 4. After the Tractatus; 5. Compositional theories of meaning; 6. Computational theories of understanding; X The standard metre (50); 1. The rudiments of measurement; 2. The standard metre and canonical samples; 3. Fixing the reference or explaining the meaning?; 4. Defusing paradoxes; XI Family resemblance (65); 1. Background: definition, logical constituents and analysis; 2. Family resemblance: precursors and anticipations3. Family resemblance: a minimalist interpretation; 4. Sapping the defences of orthodoxy; 5. Problems about family-resemblance concepts; 6. Psychological concepts; 7. Formal concepts; XII Proper names (79); 1. Stage-setting; 2. Frege and Russell: simple abbreviation theories; 3. Cluster theories of proper names; 4. Some general principles; 5. Some critical consequences; 6. The significance of proper names; 7. Proper names and meaning; XIII Turning the examination around: the recantation of a metaphysician (89); 1. Reorienting the investigation
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S. Hacker's definitive reference work on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. New edition of the first volume of the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations. Takes into account much material that was unavailable when the first edition was written. Following Baker's death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has thoroughly revised the first volume, rewriting many essays and sections of exegesis completely. Part One - the Essays - now includes tw