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Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity

Volume 2 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Essays and Exegesis 185-242
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Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity is the second volume in the authoritative analytical commentary on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. This thoroughly revised second edition deeply explores Wittgenstein's challenging and often debated remarks on rule-following, offering rewritten essays and new insights into communitarian and individualist perspectives. It also includes an expanded discussion on Wittgenstein’s views of logical, mathematical, and metaphysical necessity, updated textual analysis using recent research tools, and reflects two decades of scholarly debate on these themes.
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The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein s Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules.

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The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules.

  • Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following.
  • Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein’s conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity.
  • Features updates to the textual exegesis as a result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass.
  • Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118854594

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 February 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 513g

Pages: 400

About the Author

G. P. Baker was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford from1967 until his death in 2002. P. M. S. Hacker is an Emeritus Research Fellow at StJohn s College, Oxford, and Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Kent at Canterbury.

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