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Wittgenstein: To Follow a Rule book cover

1st Edition

Wittgenstein To Follow a Rule

Edited By Steven Holtzman, Christopher Leich Copyright 1981
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 2005. The essays and replies in this volume represent, with some modifications, the proceedings of a colloquium held in Oxford in Trinity Term, 1979. With occasional exceptions, critical response to the Philosophical Investigations following publication focused on a limited range of topics - an unsystematic book was discussed in an unsystematic fashion. This book employs a... Read more

Introductory essay: Communal agreement and objectivity, Christopher M. Leich and Steven H. Holtzman

PART ONE: Following a rule: the basic themes

1. Following Wittgenstein: Some signposts for Philosophical Investigations 143-242, Gordon Baker

2. Reply: Rule-Following: the nature of Wittgenstein's arguments, Christopher Peacocke

PART TWO: following a rule: objectivity and meaning

3. Rule-Following, objectivity and the theory of meaning, Crispin Wright

4. Reply: Semantic theory and Tacit knowledge, Gareth Evans

PART THREE: following a rule and ethics

5. Non-cognitivism and rule-following, John McDowell

6. Reply: rule-following and moral realism, Simon Blackburn

PART FOUR: Following a rule and the social sciences

7. Understanding and explaination in the Geisteswissenschaften, Charles Taylor

8. Reply: Evaluative 'realism' and interpretation, Philip pettit

Biography

Steven H. Holtzman (ed.) is a Graduate Student at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Christopher M. Leich (ed.) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University

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