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Print Price: $98.95

Format:
Hardback
296 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199213238

Publication date:
June 2009

Imprint: OUP UK


Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy

Essays for P. M. S. Hacker

Edited by Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman

Peter Hacker is one of the most notable interpreters of Wittgenstein's work, a powerful and sophisticated exponent of Wittgensteinian ideas, and a distinguished historian of the analytic tradition. Thirteen leading philosophers and Wittgenstein scholars offer specially written essays in honour of Hacker. Their contributions deal with a variety of themes associated with Wittgenstein. Some deal with issues of Wittgenstein scholarship and interpretation, including areas that have attracted an increasing amount of attention, such as ethics and religion. Others deal with central topics from the history of analytic philosophy. Finally there are essays that explore and assess Wittgensteinian ideas, in some cases as developed by Hacker, in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, or in related areas such as the philosophy of action and the philosophy of neuroscience.

Readership : Advanced students and scholars of philosophy

Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman: Preface
1. Avishai Margalit: Wittgenstein's Knight Move: Hacker on Wittgenstein's influence on Analytic Philosophy
2. Wolfgang Künne: Wittgenstein and Frege's 'Logical Investigations'
3. Joachim Schulte: 'Moses': Wittgenstein on Names
4. Severin Schroeder: Analytic Truths and Grammatical Propositions
5. Jack Canfield: Back to the Rough Ground: Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language
6. Bede Rundle: The Private Language Argument
7. Stephen Mulhall: Language-Games and Language: Rules, Normality Conditions and Conversation
8. Hans Oberdiek: Wittgenstein's Ethics: Boundaries and Boundary Crossings
9. John Cottingham: The Lessons of Life: Wittgenstein, Religion and Analytic Philosophy
10. John Dupré: Hard and Easy Questions about Consciousness
11. Anthony Kenny: Cognitive Scientism
12. David Wiggins: Knowing How To and Knowing That
13. Jonathan Dancy: Action, Content and Inference
P.M.S. Hacker - Bibliography

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Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Until 2006, he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading (UK). He has held research fellowships at St. John's College, Oxford, Bielefeld University, and Rhodes University, South Africa. John Hyman is a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and Editor of The British Journal of Aesthetics. He was a Getty Scholar in 2001-2002, a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2002-2003, and Chairman of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford in 2003-2005.

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Special Features

  • Distinguished international list of contributors
  • A celebration of the work of P.M.S. Hacker, the leading interpreter of Wittgenstein's philosophy
  • Fascinating articles on Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy, language, and mind
  • Covers the full range of Wittgenstein scholarship and studies