This is the second volume of David Pears's acclaimed study of Wittgenstein's philosophy from the Notebooks and the Tractatus to Philosophical Investigations and other later writings. Dealing with writings from 1929 onward, Volume II provides close discussions of those doctrines and ideas that reveal the general overall structure of Wittgenstein's thought. Designed to fill the gap in the secondary literature between brief introductions and long commentaries, The False Prison relates the general to the particular within a clearly delineated framework, making Wittgenstein's difficult thought more accessible to philosophy students and nonspecialists.
Author(s): David Pears
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 357
Cover......Page 1
Cover2......Page 2
Contents......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 10
PART III: INSIDE THE LATER SYSTEM......Page 13
9. Transition......Page 15
10. The Exemplary Treatment of the Ego......Page 42
11. The First Attempt to Extend the Treatment of the Ego to Sensations and their Types: Reactions to Phenomenalism......Page 86
12. The First Attempt to Extend the Treatment of the Ego to Sensations and their Types: Other Minds......Page 112
13. The Private Language Argument of Philosophical Investigations......Page 144
14. The Disabling Defect of a Private Language......Page 177
15. The Structure of the Private Language Argument......Page 205
16. Rule-following: Meaning and Doing......Page 239
17. Rule-following: The Rejection of the Platonic Theory in Philosophical Investigations......Page 276
18. The Next Problem......Page 318
Bibliography......Page 351
K......Page 355
S......Page 356
V......Page 357
