Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity: Essays and Exegesis of §§185-242, Volume 2, Second Edition

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 Analytical commentary Fruits upon one tree The continuation of the early draft into philosophy of mathematics Hidden isomorphism A common methodology The flatness of philosophical grammar Following a rule 185-242 Introduction to the exegesis Rules and grammar The tractatus and rules of logical syntax From logical syntax to philosophical grammar Rules and rule-formulations Philosophy and grammar The scope of grammar Some morals Exegesis 185-8 Accord with a rule Initial compass bearings Accord and the harmony between language and reality Rules of inference and logical machinery Formulations and explanations of rules by examples Interpretations, fitting and grammar Further misunderstandings Exegesis 189-202 Following rules, mastery of techniques and practices Following a rule Practices and techniques Doing the right thing and doing the same thing Privacy and the community view On not digging below bedrock Private linguists and private linguists : Robinson Crusoe sails again Is a language necessarily shared with a community of speakers? Innate knowledge of a language Robinson Crusoe sails again Solitary cavemen and monolinguists Private languages and private languages Exegesis 203-37 Agreement in definitions, judgements, and form of life The scaffolding of facts The role of our nature Forms of life Agreement : consensus of human beings and their actions Exegesis 238-42 Grammar and necessity Setting the stage Leitmotifs External guidelines Necessary propositions and norms of representation Concerning the truth and falsehood of necessary propositions What necessary truths are about illusions of correspondence : ideal objects, kinds of reality, and ultra-physics The psychology of the A priori Knowledge Belief Certainty Surprise Discoveries and conjectures Compulsion Propositions of logic and laws of thought Alternative forms of representation The arbitrariness of grammar A kinship to the non-arbitrary Proof in mathematics Conventionalism.