Blind obedience : paradox and learning in the later Wittgenstein /
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| Author / Creator: | Williams, Meredith, 1947- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. |
| Description: | xii, 332 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7924381 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Structure and content of the Philosophical Investigations
- Wittgenstein's metaphilosophy
- The method of description
- Wittgenstein's theoretical diagnosis: from mistake to paradox
- Two domains: linguistic mastery vs initiate learning
- The structure of the book
- Notes
- 2. Playing the game
- The Fregean picture of language
- Wittgenstein's rejection of ôFrege's ideaö
- The builders game: rudimentary language or animal signaling?
- Dummett's challenge: sense vs force
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3. The domestication of reference
- The problem of normative similarity 1: ostensive definition
- Rejection of Quine's picture of language
- Objects and paradigms
- Ostensive teaching and social practices
- Notes
- 4. 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
- Notes
- 5. Rules and the paradox of interpretation
- The problem of normative similarity 2: rules and interpretation
- Two pleas for interpretation
- The community view and reductionism
- The individualist view and mystification
- Notes
- 6. 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
- Notes
- 7. Necessity and the threat of psychologism
- Two forms of holism
- Stage-setting: conventions without decisions
- Background technique: necessity without metaphysics
- Normativity and ôpsychologizedö necessity
- Learning, trust and certainty
- Notes
- 8. Sensation and 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
- Notes
- 9. Concluding remarks
- Bibliography
- Index