The Routledge Handbook of Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers: Part 1

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Ludwig Wittgenstein: An Overview P. M. S. Hacker

Part 1: Pre-1960 Influences

2. Frank Ramsey’s Wittgenstein: On the Tractatus Fraser MacBride

3. Bertrand Russell’s Wittgenstein: Scientific Philosophy Gregory Landini

4. Rudolf Carnap’s Wittgenstein André W. Carus

5. Gilbert Ryle’s Wittgenstein Julia Tanney

6. Elizabeth Anscombe’s Wittgenstein Roger Teichmann

7. Peter Geach’s Wittgenstein Michael Potter

8. Nelson Goodman’s Wittgenstein: A Reappraisal of their Discussion of Skeptical Paradoxes Pieranna Garavaso

9. Paul Grice’s Wittgenstein Siobhan Chapman

10. P.F. Strawson’s Wittgenstein Benjamin De Mesel and Hans-Johann Glock

11. Ruth Barcan Marcus’s Wittgenstein Frederique Janssen-Lauret

Part 2: Post-1960 Influences

12. Wilfrid Sellars’s Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein, Sellars, and Pictures Willem A. deVries

13. W.V.O. Quine’s Wittgenstein Gary N. Kemp and Andrew Lugg

14. Donald Davidson’s Wittgenstein: Affinities and Contrasts Kirk Ludwig

15. David Lewis’s Wittgenstein: Lewis and the Later Wittgenstein Fraser MacBride

16. Michael Dummett’s Wittgenstein Bernhard Weiss

17. Hidé Ishiguro’s Wittgenstein José Zalabardo

18. Jaakko Hintikka’s Wittgenstein: Recovering Reality Daniel Kolak

19. Hilary Putnam’s Wittgenstein Maximilian de Gaynesford

20. Stanley Cavell’s Wittgenstein Russell B. Goodman

21. Bernard Williams’s Wittgenstein: Who are ‘We’? Gerald Lang

22. Richard Rorty’s Wittgenstein: On Rorty’s Quining of Wittgenstein David Macarthur

23. Saul Kripke’s Wittgenstein: A Meaning Revisionist? Ali Hossein Khani

24. Barry Stroud’s Wittgenstein Claudine Verheggen

25. John R. Searle’s Wittgenstein Mitchell S. Green

26. David Wiggins’s Wittgenstein Sophie Grace Chappell

27. Thomas Nagel’s Wittgenstein: The Only Genius of the Century? Anita Avramides

28. Simon Blackburn’s Wittgenstein: The Quasi-Realist Ali Hossein Khani

29. John McDowell’s Wittgenstein Marie McGinn

30. Crispin Wright’s Wittgenstein Alexander Miller

31. Noam Chomsky’s Wittgenstein: On Things (Not) to Do to Concepts Tamara Dobler

Part 3: Current Philosophers and Their Wittgensteins

32. Cora Diamond’s Wittgenstein Cora Diamond

33. Charles Travis’s Wittgenstein: Putting Crystalline Purity in Its Place. A Précis Charles Travis

34. Robert Brandom’s Wittgenstein: Some Strands of Wittgenstein’s Normative Pragmatism, and Some Strains of his Semantic Nihilism Robert B. Brandom

35. Colin McGinn’s Wittgenstein Colin McGinn

36. Paul Horwich’s Wittgenstein Paul Horwich

37. Penelope Maddy’s Wittgenstein Penelope Maddy

38. Paul Boghossian’s Wittgenstein: The Problem of Meaning in the later Wittgenstein Paul Boghossian

39. A.W. Moore’s Wittgenstein A. W. Moore

40. Danièle Moyal-Sharrock’s, Duncan H. Pritchard’s, and Annalisa Coliva’s Wittgenstein: The Hinge Epistemology Program Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Duncan H. Pritchard, and Annalisa Coliva.

Index

Biography

Ali Hossein Khani is Assistant Professor at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP) since 2022 and a Researcher at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) since 2017. He is the author of three entries for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), and of the forthcoming book Kripke’s Wittgenstein: Meaning, Rules, and Scepticism (2026). He is co-editor, with Gary N. Kemp et al., of Naturalism and Its Challenges (Routledge, 2024).

Gary N. Kemp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK. His recent books include Quine's Philosophy: An Introduction (2023), What is this thing called Philosophy of Language? (Routledge, 2024), and Quine vs. Davidson: Truth, Reference and Meaning (2012). He is co-editor of Richard Wollheim's Uncollected Writings: Writing on Art (2024), Quine and His Place in History (2015), and Wittgenstein, Wollheim, and Pictorial Representation: Seeing-as and Seeing-in (Routledge, 2016).