1st Edition
Wittgenstein To Follow a Rule
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 different approach, one that interprets disconnected discussions of Wittgenstein's as united by a single underlying set of powerful arguments.
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