Wittgenstein
Understanding and Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis §§1-184
2nd Edition
Published on 9. May 2008
384 pages
978-0-470-75309-5 (ISBN)
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This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S.Hacker's definitive reference work on Wittgenstein'sPhilosophical Investigations.
* Takes into account much material that was unavailable when thefirst edition was written.
* Following Baker's death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker hasthoroughly revised the first volume, rewriting many essays andsections of exegesis completely.
* Part One - the Essays - now includes two completelynew essays: 'Meaning and Use' and 'The Recantation of aMetaphysician'.
* Part Two - Exegesis §§1-184 - hasbeen thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publicationof Wittgenstein's Nachlass, and includes many newinterpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of thebook, and an overview of its structure.
* The revisions will ensure that this remains the definitivereference work on Wittgenstein's masterpiece for theforeseeable future.
Reviews / Votes
"A commentary on the Investigations is a colossalundertaking. Baker and Hacker skillfully conduct the reader throughthe tangles of controversy that surround the topics of sense andmeaning. They have an admirable grasp of the whole corpus ofWittgenstein's writings, and they constantly display the sharpcontrasts between Wittgenstein's thought and the currentlyinfluential 'scientific' semantics." Norman Malcolm, TimesLiterary Supplement "[Baker and Hacker] exhibit persuasively and lucidly the order,not to say structure, underlying the apparently haphazardassemblage of paragraphs constituting the printed text of theInvestigations. Their detailed knowledge of the corpus ofWittgenstein's writings, published and unpublished, allows them tocast light on otherwise obscure remarks in theInvestigations from a variety of additional perspectives.This procedure frequently explains the purpose of the remarks inquestion, the identity of the thinker or thesis against which theyare directed, and so on." Review of Metaphysics "[The authors'] detailed textual comments are placed within acarefully thought out view of the structure of the whole. It thusprovides a model for understanding Wittgenstein." PhilosophicalStudies "Wittgenstein: Meaning and Understanding is a sort ofcompendium which I wouldn't want to do without. As a matter offact, I cannot do without it, both in the sense that I need it toget all kinds of historical or philological information, as well asphilosophical stimulation, and in the sense that I have becomeaddicted to the book's magisterial way of bringing out and dealingwith the difficulties of Wittgenstein's masterpiece."Joachim Schulte, University of BielefeldMore details
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Understanding and Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis §§1-184
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Persons
G.P.Baker was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxfordfrom 1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co-author with P.M.S.Hacker of the first two volumes of the four-volume AnalyticalCommentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell,1980-96), author of Wittgenstein, Frege and the ViennaCircle (Blackwell, 1988) and with Katherine Morris ofDescartes' Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerousarticles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes.
P.M.S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophyof Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume AnalyticalCommentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first twovolumes co-authored with G.P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980-96) andof Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century AnalyticPhilosophy (Blackwell, 1996). His other previous works includeThe Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell,2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), both co-authored with M.R. Bennett. Mostrecently he has published Human Nature: The CategoricalFramework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy onhuman nature.Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the4th edition and extensively revised translation ofWittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations(Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2009).
Content
Acknowledgements.
Introduction to Part II: Exegesis.
Note to the paperback edition 2009.
Abbreviations.
The history of the composition of the PhilosophicalInvestigations.
An overview of the structure and argument of thePhilosophical Investigations.
Exegesis.
The Title.
The Motto.
The Preface.
Chapter 1 The Augustinian conception of language(§§1-27(a)).
Chapter 2 Illusions of naming: ostensive definition, logicallyproper names, simples and samples, and analysis(§§27(b)-64).
Chapter 3 Family resemblance, determinacy of sense, and thequest for essence (§§65-88).
Chapter 4 Philosophy (§§89-133).
Chapter 5 The general propositional form(§§134-42).
Chapter 6 Understanding and ability(§§143-84).
Index.
