Insight and Illusion

Insight and Illusion
Author: Peter Michael Stephan Hacker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1975
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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Insight and illusion

Insight and illusion
Author: Peter M. S. Hacker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1972
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Insight and Illusion

Insight and Illusion
Author: Peter Hacker
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2021-02-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1785276859

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Peter Hacker’s Insight and Illusion is a thoroughly comprehensive examination of the evolution of Wittgenstein’s thought from the Tractatus to his later ‘mature’ phase. This is a reprint of the revised and corrected 1989 edition, with a new foreword by Constantine Sandis. Hacker’s book is now widely regarded as the best single volume study covering both the ‘early’ and the ‘later’ Wittgenstein. Until this third edition, the book had been out of print for 25 years.

Insight and Illusion

Insight and Illusion
Author: Peter Michael Stephan Hacker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1986
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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Since the first publication of Insight and Illusion in l972, a wealth of Wittgenstein's writings has become accessible. Accordingly, in this edition Professor Hacker has rewritten six of his eleven original chapters and revised the others to incorporate the new abundant material.Insight and Illusion now fully clarifies the historical backgrounds of Wittgenstein's highly differing masterpices, the Tractatus and the Investigations, and traces the evolution of Wittgenstein's thought. Hacker explains all of Wittgenstein's writings in detail, focusing on his critique of metaphysics, his famous "private language argument," and his account of self consciousness.

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context
Author: P. M. S. Hacker
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191662488

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Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context is a collection of P. M. S. Hacker's papers on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes written over the last decade. It presents Hacker's own (Wittgensteinian) conception of philosophy, and defends it against criticisms. Two essays compare Wittgenstein with Kant on transcendental arguments, and offer a Wittgensteinian critique of Kant's transcendental deduction. Two further essays trace the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of psychology, and examine his anthropological and ethnological approach to philosophical problems. This leads naturally to a synoptic comparison of Wittgenstein's later philosophy of language with formal, truth-conditional conceptions of language. A further two clarificatory essays follow these comparative ones: the first concerns Wittgenstein's conception of grammar, and his exclusion of theses, doctrines, dogmas, and opinions in philosophy; the second concerns his treatment of intentionality. The penultimate essay examines Quine's epistemological naturalism, which is often presented as a more scientific approach to philosophical problems than Wittgenstein's. The final essay offers a synoptic view of analytic philosophy and its history, in which Wittgenstein played so notable a part. The volume complements Hacker's previous collection, Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies (OUP, 2001), but stands as an independent contribution to work in the field.

A Companion to Wittgenstein

A Companion to Wittgenstein
Author: Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 805
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1118641167

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A COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein’s thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by leading interpreters of his philosophy is a keynote addition to the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series. Full of penetrating insights into the life and work of the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, the collection explores the full range of Wittgenstein’s contribution to philosophy. It includes essays on his intellectual development, his work in logic and mathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, and much else. As well as examining Wittgenstein’s contribution to human understanding in detail, the Companion features vital contextual analysis that traces the relationship between his ideas and those of other philosophers and schools of thought, including the Aristotelian and continental philosophical traditions. Authors also address prominent themes that remain current in today’s philosophical debates, explaining Wittgenstein’s continuing legacy alongside his historical significance. Essential reading for scholars of philosophy at all levels, A Companion to Wittgenstein combines engaging commentary with unrivaled academic authority.

Wittgenstein's On Certainty: Insight and Method

Wittgenstein's On Certainty: Insight and Method
Author: Robert Greenleaf Brice
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030907813

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This book considers the important twentieth century Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his conception of certainty. In his work entitled On Certainty, Wittgenstein provides not only a brilliant solution to a previously intractable philosophical problem, but also the elements of an entirely new way of approaching this and similar longstanding, apparently unresolvable, problems. In On Certainty, he re-conceives the problem of radical skepticism–the claim that we can never really be certain of anything except the contents of our own minds–as a kind of philosophical “disease” of thought. His approach to the problem, which is emphasized in the book, is similar to the treatment of disease, has two main goals: (1) bring about an awareness in the philosopher that this kind of extreme skepticism is not a methodological approach to be taken seriously, and, with this awareness, (2) an attempt to replace this radical skepticism with a practical, Common Sense framework. Implicit in Wittgenstein’s approach are a number of strategies found in a contemporary approach to psychotherapy known as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). These strategies, along with philosophical methods and scientific practices rooted in the Scottish School of Common Sense, seek to diagnose and treat irrational thoughts and beliefs that often emerge (and re-emerge) in the discipline of philosophy. The aim of this book, then, is to provide students of philosophy with the tools necessary to adjust and reshape these irrational, self-defeating thoughts and beliefs into something new, something healthy.

Wittgenstein and the Turning Point in the Philosophy of Mathematics

Wittgenstein and the Turning Point in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Author: S.G. Shanker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317832035

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First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Author: Stuart Shanker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415149167

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Wittgenstein scholarship has continued to grow at a pace few could have anticipated - a testament both to the fertility of his thought and to the thriving state of contemporary philosophy. In response to this ever-growing interest in the field, we are delighted to announce the publication of a second series of critical assessments on Wittgenstein, emphasising both the breadth and depth of contemporary Wittgenstein research.As well as papers on the nature and method of Wittgenstein's philosophy, this second collection also relates to a broader range of topics, including psychology, politics, art, music and culture.