Wittgenstein and His Interpreters

Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the history and current trends as well as anticipating the future shape of work on Wittgenstein. The first collection of its kind, this volume presents a range of perspectives on the different approaches to the philosophy of Wittgenstein Written by leading experts from America, Britain, and Europe Provides a much needed overview of the complex landscape of Wittgenstein exegesis and Wittgensteinian approaches to philosophy Assesses the current state, aims, and future of Wittgenstein scholarship An essential guide for both students and scholars

Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the mostsignificant contributors to the field, this volume provides auniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines ofWittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing thehistory and current trends as well as anticipating the future shapeof work on Wittgenstein.* The first collection of its kind, this volume presents a rangeof perspectives on the different approaches to the philosophy ofWittgenstein* Written by leading experts from America, Britain, andEurope* Provides a much needed overview of the complex landscape ofWittgenstein exegesis and Wittgensteinian approaches tophilosophy* Assesses the current state, aims, and future of Wittgensteinscholarship* An essential guide for both students and scholars

Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgements xiList of Abbreviations xiiIntroduction 1Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and Oskari Kuusela1 Perspectives on Wittgenstein: An Intermittently 37Opinionated SurveyHans-Johann Glock2 Wittgenstein's Method: Ridding People of 66Philosophical PrejudicesKatherine Morris3 Gordon Baker's Late Interpretation of Wittgenstein 88P. M. S. Hacker4 The Interpretation of the Philosophical Investigations: 123Style, Therapy, Nachlass Alois Pichler5 Ways of Reading Wittgenstein: Observations on 145Certain Uses of the Word 'Metaphysics'Joachim Schulte6 Metaphysical/Everyday Use: A Note on a Late 169Paper by Gordon BakerHilary Putnam7 Wittgenstein and Transcendental Idealism 174A. W. Moore8 Simples and the Idea of Analysis in the Tractatus 200Marie McGinn9 Words, Waxing and Waning: Ethics in/and/of the 221Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusStephen Mulhall10 The Uses of Wittgenstein's Beetle: Philosophical 248Investigations
293 and Its InterpretersDavid G. Stern11 Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist? The Reception 269of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of MathematicsRay Monk12 Wittgenstein and Ethical Naturalism 295Alice CraryBibliography 320Name Index 345Subject Index 350