An edition of Blind obedience (2009)

Blind obedience

the structure and content of Wittgenstein's later philosophy

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An edition of Blind obedience (2009)

Blind obedience

the structure and content of Wittgenstein's later philosophy

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Routledge
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English
Pages
332

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Table of Contents

Structure and content of the philosophical investigations
Wittgenstein's metaphilosophy
The method of description
Wittgenstein's distinctive arguments : from mistake to paradox
Two domains : linguistic mastery vs. initiate learning
The structure of the book
Playing the game
The Fregean picture of language
Wittgenstein's rejection of Frege's idea
Builders game : language or signaling?
Dummett's challenge : sense vs. force
The domestication of reference
The problem of normative similarity 1 : ostension
Rejection of Quine's picture of language
Objects and paradigms
Ostensive teaching and social practices
Logical form and the paradox of thought
The subliming of logic
Frege's idea and the paradox of thought
Davidson's challenge : meaning and logical form
The limits of systematicity
Meaning and the paradox of interpretation
The problem of normative similarity 2 : rules
Two pleas for interpretation
The community view and reductionism
The individualist view and mystification normativity and the threat of regularism
Rules and regularities
The public basis of normativity
The social basis of normativity : the negative argument
The social basis of normativity : the positive argument
Necessity and the threat of psychologism
Two forms of holism
Stage-setting : conventions without decisions
Background technique : necessity without metaphysics
Normativity and "psychologized" necessity
Learning, trust, and certainty
The paradoxes of consciousness
The problem of normative similarity 3 : consciousness
The epistemology of subjectivity : paradox of self-knowledge
The ontology of subjectivity : paradox of sensation
Cartesian thought experiments and the expressivist view
Criteria, deception, and the new problem of other minds.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
192
Library of Congress
B3376.W563 P532775 2009, B3376.W563P532775, B3376.W563 P532775 2010eb, B3376.W563 P532775 2010, B3376.W563P532775 20

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
332

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23554212M
Internet Archive
blindobediencepa0000will
ISBN 13
9780415553001, 9780203870815
LCCN
2009023300
OCLC/WorldCat
639239150, 402541103

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