Thought's Footing: Themes in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations - Softcover

Travis, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199562377 ISBN 13: 9780199562374

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view of the work as a whole. The central question is: how does thought get its footing? How can the thought that things are a certain way be connected to things being that way?

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Travis received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963, and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1967. He has taught in the USA, Canada, The Netherlands, and the UK. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at King's College London.

Review:

"One could not possibly exhaust in a few words the depth of this book (both for Wittgenstein scholars and for philosophers interested in thought and language), which, after this very brief presentation, remains for the reader to discover. Thought's Footing is certainly (and has already proved to be) a major and essential contribution to the philosophy of language and mind and to the Wittgenstein legacy." --Metapsychology

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199562377
• ISBN 13: 9780199562374
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240