Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition
10 best books like Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition (Saul A. Kripke): Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock, Word and Object, Mind and World: With a New Introduction by the Author, Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation, The Frege Reader, The Blue and Brown Books, Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy, On the Plurality of Worlds
| Author | J.L. Austin |
| ISBN | 0195003071 |
"An excellent book presenting many of the major issues of ordinary language philosophy--very readable."--Mark Hamilton, Ashland University
"The clarity, the wit, and the patience of the writing are liable to deceive the reader on only one point, namely the amount of hard work that lies...
| Author | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| ISBN | 0262670011 |
Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion,...
| Author | John Henry McDowell |
| ISBN | 0674576101 |
Modern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers...
| Author | Donald Davidson |
| ISBN | 0199246289 |
Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson's exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus of controversy, with its impact extending into...
| Author | Gottlob Frege |
| ISBN | 0631194452 |
This is the first single-volume edition and translation of Frege's philosophical writings to include all of his seminal papers and substantial selections from all three of his major works. It is intended to provide the essential primary texts for students of logic, metaphysics and philosophy of...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061312118 |
These works, as the subtitle makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, among the most important & influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-34. The 'Brown Book' was a draft...
As with most things, I started out entirely confused about what, exactly, Searle was even saying. Around a hundred pages later, I checked Wikipedia and the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and viola! Suddenly life is better. You always like a book better once you get what it's saying. I wish I knew...
| Author | Wilfrid Sellars |
| ISBN | 0674251555 |
The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about...
I'm very enthusiastic about the way Cavell does things (though his writing does feel verbose at times). I don't have the most sophisticated understanding of /The Claim of Reason/ yet but I would characterize him as approaching basic longstanding questions (how do I know I'm not dreaming? how do I know...
| Author | David Kellogg Lewis |
| ISBN | 0631224262 |
against all odds, i am extremely fond of this book. modal realism doesn't really do any of the work that i care most about doing, or resolve any of the questions that i care most about resolving, but i'll give this to david lewis, he seems to have done a great job of resolving the questions that HE cares most...
| Author | Thomas Nagel |
| ISBN | 0195056442 |
Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular." At the same time, each of us is a particular person...
| Author | William G. Lycan |
| ISBN | 0415171164 |
Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction,...
The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein
| Author | Hans D. Sluga |
| ISBN | 0521465915 |
After reading
On Certainty
, I wanted to quickly gather an overview of Wittgenstein without reading all of his works. Why? I like to cheat. On homework, I mean on homework. Like…well…can my high-school diploma be revoked if I tell a story about cheating in high school? Just to play it safe, I’m...
| Author | Anthony Kenny |
| ISBN | 0140215816 |
Widely praised for providing a lucid and historically informed account of Wittgenstein's core philosophical concerns.
Demonstrates the continuity between Wittgenstein's early and later writings.
Provides a persuasive argument for the unity of Wittgenstein's thought.
Kenny...
| Author | Hilary Putnam |
| ISBN | 0674013808 |
If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent place in popular culture and philosophical thought:...
Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy
| Author | Joel Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0534573525 |
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