
Wittgenstein
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Note to the second edition: Part I: Essays
- Acknowledgements to the first edition
- Acknowledgements to the second edition
- Introduction to Part I: Essays
- Abbreviations
- The Essays
- Chapter I Introduction to the private language arguments
- 1. The Augustinian conception of language and Wittgenstein's early commitments
- 2. The place of the private language arguments in the Philosophical Investigations
- 3. The Great Tradition and its long shadow
- 4. From grammatical trivialities to metaphysical mysteries
- (A) Misconceptions about the mental realm
- (B) Misconceptions about names of the mental
- (C) Misconceptions about knowledge of the subjective realm
- (D) Misconceptions about knowledge of the mental states of others
- 5. The dialectic of the mental
- Chapter II Only I can have
- 1. The traditional picture and its predicaments
- 2. Private ownership
- 3. Dispelling conceptual illusions and confusions
- Chapter III Only I can know
- 1. The roots of the problem
- 2. Wittgenstein's response to the classical conception
- 3. Wittgenstein's sketchy account of knowledge
- 4. The cognitive network: connective analysis
- 5. A different route: the functions of the verb 'to know'
- 6. The temptations of the received view resisted
- 7. Further objections rebutted
- Chapter IV Private ostensive definition
- 1. A 'private' language
- 2. Names, ostensive definitions and samples - a reminder
- 3. The vocabulary of a private language
- 4. Idle wheels
- Chapter V Men, minds and machines
- 1. Human beings, their parts and their bodies
- 2. The mind
- 3. Only in the stream of life .
- 4. Homunculi and brains
- 5. Can machines think?
- Chapter VI Avowals and descriptions
- 1. Descriptions of subjective experience
- 2. Descriptions
- 3. Natural expression
- 4. A spectrum of cases
- Chapter VII Behaviour and behaviourism
- 1. Behaviourism in psychology and philosophy
- 2. Wittgenstein: first reactions
- 3. Crypto-behaviourism?
- 4. Body and behaviour
- Chapter VIII Knowledge of other minds: the inner and the outer
- 1. Semi-solipsism
- 2. Inside and outside
- 3. The indeterminacy of the mental
- Chapter IX An overview of the achievement of the private language arguments
- 1. An overview
- 2. Fundamental insights
- 3. Fidelity to philosophical methodology
- 4. Consequences and confusions
- Chapter X Thinking: methodological muddles and categorial confusions
- 1. Thinking: a muddle elevated to a mystery
- 2. Methodological clarifications
- 3. Activities of the mind
- 4. Processes in the mind
- Chapter XI Thinking: the soul of language
- 1. The strategic role of the argument
- 2. The dual-process conception
- 3. Thought, language and the mastery of linguistic skills
- 4. Making a radical break
- Chapter XII Images and the imagination
- 1. Landmarks
- 2. Seeing, imagining and mental images
- 3. Images and pictures
- 4. Visual images and visual impressions
- 5. Imagination, intention and the will
- Chapter XIII I and my self
- 1. Historical antecedents
- 2. 'The I, the I is what is deeply mysterious'
- 3. The eliminability of the word 'I'
- 4. '"I" does not refer to a person'
- Chapter XIV The world of consciousness
- 1. The world as consciousness
- 2. The gulf between consciousness and body
- 3. The certainty of consciousness
- Chapter XV Criteria
- 1. Symptoms and hypotheses
- 2. Symptoms and criteria
- 3. Further problems about criteria
- 4. Evidence, knowledge and certainty
- Index
- EULA
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