WITTGENSTEIN: RULES, GRAMMAR AND NECESSITY: Essays and Exegesis of §§185-242

G.P. Baker and P.M.S. Hacker

ISBN 10: 1405184086 / ISBN 13: 9781405184083

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2009

380p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Bottom of spine dented, with corresponding closed tear on the jacket. Otherwise clean and tight, and jacket intact. Volume 2 of AN ANALYTICAL COMMENTARY ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS. Seller Inventory # 177361

Synopsis:

The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules.

• Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following
• Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein’s conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity
• Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass
• Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years

About the Author: G. P. Baker was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford from 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 Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, 1980–96), author of Wittgenstein, Frege and the Vienna Circle (Blackwell, 1988) and, with Katherine Morris, of Descartes' Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes.

P. M. S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first two volumes co-authored with G.P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980–96) and of Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). His recent works include The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), both co-authored with M. R. Bennett. Most recently he has published Human Nature: The Categorial Framework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature. Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the 4^th edition and extensively revised translation of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Bibliographic Details

Title: WITTGENSTEIN: RULES, GRAMMAR AND NECESSITY: ...
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: Second Edition, revised.