Wittgenstein and Reason (eBook)

John Preston (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
160 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-0710-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume discusses Wittgenstein's work, as well as his
oeuvre in general, and its implications for the nature of reason.

* Investigates the nature of reason which has always been a topic
at the very heart of Western philosophy

* Analyses how Wittgenstein raised crucial questions about the
subject - most notably in his critique of Frazer's Golden
Bough, his discussions of various philosophical aspects of
religion, and the famous 'rule-following
considerations' from his Philosophical
Investigations

* Contributors include prominent Wittgenstein scholars from the
UK and continental Europe including Hanjo Glock, Genia
Schönbaumsfeld, Severin Schroeder Joachim Schulte and Crispin
Wright

* Contains a translation of an important paper by the French
Wittgenstein scholar Jacques Bouveresse, alongside six new papers
by other contributors

Autor

John Preston is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading.

Inhalt

Preface vii

1 Wittgenstein's Critique of Frazer 1

Jacques Bouveresse

2 Relativism, Commensurability and Translatability 21

Hans-Johann Glock

3 'Back to the Rough Ground!' Wittgensteinian
Reflections on Rationality and Reason 47

Jane Heal

4 Worlds or Words Apart? Wittgenstein on Understanding Religious
Language 65

Genia Schönbaumsfeld

5 The Tightrope Walker 85

Severin Schroeder

6 Rules and Reason 107

Joachim Schulte

7 Rule-Following without Reasons: Wittgenstein's Quietism
and the Constitutive Question 123

Crispin Wright

Index 145

Rezensionen

"Taken as a whole, this volume provides an extremely valuable
and critically astute examination of utterly fundamental issues
that need serious attention and investigation in today's
philosophical climate--it constitutes a 'must read'."
(Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 2009)

"Preston (philosophy, Univ. of Reading) offers scholarly
pieces that explore the connections in his work between reason and
relativism, the reasonableness of religious belief, and
Wittgenstein's notion of rule following. Recommended for academic
research libraries." (Library Journal, November
2008)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Philosophical Logic • Philosophie • Philosophische Logik • Philosophy • Wittgenstein
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-0710-X / 144430710X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0710-8 / 9781444307108