1st Edition

Philosophy and the Vision of Language

By Paul Livingston Copyright 2008
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Philosophy and the Vision of Language explores the history and enduring significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical reflection. It traces the implications of the access to language in some of the most prominent projects and results of the historical and contemporary tradition of analytic philosophy, including the... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction: Language and Structure

Section I: Early Analytic Philosophy

Chapter 2: Frege on the Context Principle and Psychologism

Chapter 3: ‘Meaning is Use’ in the Tractatus

Section II: Radical Translation and Intersubjective Practice

Introductory: From Syntax to Semantics (and Pragmatics)

Chapter 4: Ryle and Sellars on Inner-State Reports

Chapter 5: Quine’s Appeal to Use and the Genealogy of Indeterminacy

Section III: Critical Outcome

Introductory: From the Aporia of Structure to the Critique of Practice

Chapter 6: Wittgenstein, Kant, and the Critique of Totality

Chapter 7: Thinking and Being: Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Machination and Lived-Experience

Chapter 8: Language, Norms, and the Force of Reason

Section IV: Conclusion

Chapter 9: The Question of Language

Notes

Bibliography

Index

 

 

Biography

Paul M. Livingston is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He has published widely in the history of twentieth century philosophy. His first book was titled Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2004).