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Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language Some Aspects of its Development

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First published in 2005. This book studies the often overlooked work of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus, the Tractatus and their later work being argued as being mutually illuminating. Bogen states that the works of Wittgenstein require a study of their points of contact which led to the formation of this title. This is accomplished by studying the text in two parts: its... Read more

Introduction

PART 1: The picture theory and the Tractatus Ontology

1. A sketch of the picture theory of language

2. The thesis that the meaning of a name is its bearer, and the determinancy of sense

3. Names and simple objects

4. Wittgenstein's later discussion of simples

PART 2: The Abandonment of the picture theory

1. The problem of intentionality and the shipwreck of the picture theory

2. The intentionality of assertions

3. Consequences of Wittgenstein's post-tractarian account of intentionality for doctrines of the Tractatus and for the course of Wittgenstein's later work

PART 3: Use

1. The 'calculus theory' and anti-psychologism

2. Wittgenstein's rejection of the calculus theory

3. Is there a later account of use?

4 Simples again.