Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society

This wide-ranging collection of essays contains eighteen original articles by authors representing some of the most important recent work on Wittgenstein. It deals with questions pertaining to both the interpretation and application of Wittgenstein's thought and the editing of his works. Regarding the latter, it also addresses issues concerning scholarly electronic publishing. Contributors: Knut Erik Tranoy, Lars Hertzberg, Georg Henrik von Wright, Marie McGinn, Cora Diamond, James Conant, David G. Stern, Eike von Savigny, P.M.S. Hacker, Hans-Johann Glock, Allan Janik, Krist?f Ny?ri, Antonia Soulez, Brian McGuinness, Anthony Kenny, Joachim Schulte, Herbert Hrachovec, and Cameron McEwen. Alois Pichler is director of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (Norway). Simo S??tel? is associate professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Bergen (Norway). Note on the second edition......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Introduction......Page 16 1. My relation to Wittgenstein......Page 76 2. Two questions......Page 77 3. “To stop doing philosophy”......Page 79 4. What is it to be a philosopher?......Page 83 1. The marginalization of Wittgenstein’s philosophy......Page 85 2. Work on oneself......Page 88 3. Bringing words back......Page 89 4. A one-sided diet......Page 93 5. The rabbit case......Page 96 6. Pretensions are a mortgage......Page 98 1. Sense and contingency......Page 101 3. Senseless truths?......Page 102 4. Thoughts......Page 103 5. “Legitimately constructed proposition”......Page 104 6. Nonsensical Tractatus......Page 105 1. A ‘single great problem’......Page 110 2. The significance of Frege and Russell......Page 112 3. Russell’s theory of judgement......Page 115 4. Frege’s conception of truth......Page 121 5. The content of molecular propositions......Page 125 6. Shared preconceptions......Page 126 7. The propositions of logic......Page 129 8. ‘Quite general propositions’......Page 133 9. Inference......Page 138 1. Winch, Malcolm and the unityof Wittgenstein’s philosophy......Page 144 2. Opposed understandings of the Tractatus......Page 149 3. Thinking and projecting......Page 153 4. What’s in a name?......Page 160 5. Winch and formalism......Page 164 6. Another problem with Winch’s reading......Page 169 7. The significance of Winch’s philosophical practice......Page 173 1. A dispute about how to read the Tractatus......Page 175 2. The first list......Page 185 3. The second list......Page 190 4. The third list......Page 202 1. Debates in Wittgenstein scholarship......Page 208 2. The queer grammar of talk about Wittgenstein......Page 209 3. Who wrote the Philosophical Investigations:Nine answers in search of a philosopher......Page 216 4. Style and context......Page 223 1. Preliminary......Page 233 2. Use determines meaning......Page 234 3. First person psychological utterances......Page 236 4. Nonverbal expressions of mental states......Page 239 5. Research bibliography......Page 244 1. First person authority: the received explanation......Page 247 2. Knowledge: the point of the concept......Page 251 3. Knowledge: the semantic field......Page 256 4. Methodological constraints......Page 260 5. Some conditions of sense forthe operators ‘A knows’ and ‘I know’......Page 263 6. The cognitive assumption: sensations......Page 265 7. Objections to the non-cognitive account......Page 272 1. Wittgenstein and history......Page 280 2. Varieties of historicism......Page 281 3. Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy......Page 285 4. Wittgenstein and historicism......Page 292 5. Wittgenstein and genealogy......Page 299 1. Rationality, Wittgenstein and philosophy of science......Page 307 2. Rule-following and the preconditions of experience......Page 311 3. Aristotle’s conception of practical knowledge......Page 314 4. How practice takes care of itself: The Common Law......Page 319 5. Leaving things as they are......Page 320 1. Wittgenstein’s philosophy of pictures......Page 325 2. What the printed corpus offers......Page 328 3. Using the Nachlass: towards a re-interpretation......Page 345 4. A philosophy of post-literacy......Page 355 1. Dialogical style and musicality......Page 357 2. Three (four) voices......Page 360 3. “Our” answer to the phenomenologist......Page 363 4. Conceptual characters, Denkstile, and the author......Page 365 5. A faceless kind of voice – the grammatical garb of the (absent) philosopher......Page 368 1. The relation between form and content......Page 370 2. The Tractatus......Page 372 3. Philosophical Investigations......Page 377 4. The form of publishing......Page 382 1. Wittgenstein’s will......Page 385 2. The seventies......Page 387 3. The eighties......Page 389 4. The nineties......Page 393 5. The situation today......Page 396 1. The Wittgenstein editions......Page 400 2. Wittgenstein’s way of working......Page 403 3. What is a work by Wittgenstein?......Page 405 1. The Bergen edition and Wittgenstein scholarship......Page 408 2. Technical and other troubles......Page 409 3. Prospects with XML......Page 415 4. The Bergen edition and digital scholarship......Page 419 1. The digital turn......Page 421 2. Wittgenstein as test bed forelectronic humanities scholarship......Page 423 3. Perspectives for the future......Page 429 Bibliography andreference system......Page 434 Authors and Abstracts......Page 443 The editors......Page 458 Name index......Page 459 Wittgenstein And The Relation Between Life And Philosophy / Knut Erik Tranøy -- Trying To Keep Philosophy Honest / Lars Hertzberg -- Remarks On Wittgenstein's Use Of The Terms Sinn, Sinnlos, Unsinnig, Wahr, And Gedanke In The Tractatus / Georg Henrik Von Wright -- Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy Of Language And The Idea Of 'the Single Great Problem' / Marie Mcginn -- Peter Winch On The Tractatus And The Unity Of Wittgenstein's Philosophy / Cora Diamond -- Wittgenstein's Later Criticism Of The Tractatus / James Conant -- How Many Wittgensteins? / David G. Stern -- Taking Avowals Seriously: The Soul A Public Afffair / Eike Von Savigny -- Of Knowledge And Of Knowing That Someone Is In Pain / P.m.s. Hacker -- Wittgenstein And History / Hans-johann Glock -- Impure Reason Vindicated / Allan Janik -- Wittgenstein's Philosophy Of Pictures / Kristóf Nyíri -- A Case Of Early Wittgenstein Dialogism: Stances On The Impossibility Of Red And Green In The Same Place / Antonia Soulez -- Wittgenstein: Philosophy And Literature / Brian Mcguinness -- A Brief History Of Wittgenstein Editing / Anthony Kenny -- What Is A Work By Wittgenstein? / Joachim Schulte -- Evaluating The Bergen Electronic Edition / Herbert Hrachovec -- Wittgenstein In Digital Form: Perspectives For The Future / Cameron Mcewen. Alois Pichler, Simo Säätelä (eds.). Earlier Ed. Published In 2005 By The Wittgenstein Archives At The University Of Bergen In The Series Working Papers From The Wittgenstein Archives At The University Of Bergen, No. 17. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 431-439) And Index. This wide-ranging collection of essays contains eighteen original articles by authors representing some of the most important recent work on Wittgenstein. It deals with questions pertaining to both the interpretation and application of Wittgenstein's thought and the editing of his works. Regarding the latter, it also addresses issues concerning scholarly electronic publishing. Contributors: Knut Erik Tranoy, Lars Hertzberg, Georg Henrik von Wright, Marie McGinn, Cora Diamond, James Conant, David G. Stern, Eike von Savigny, P.M.S. Hacker, Hans-Johann Glock, Allan Janik, Kristof Nyiri, Antonia Soulez, Brian McGuinness, Anthony Kenny, Joachim Schulte, Herbert Hrachovec, and Cameron McEwen. "Alois Pichler" is director of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (Norway). Simo Saatela is associate professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Bergen (Norway).