1st Edition
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language Some Aspects of its Development
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 relevance to picture theory, the subsequent abandonment of the picture theory.
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.
Biography
James Bogen, Pitzer College, Claremont, California