Wittgenstein on Private Language, Sensation and Perception
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2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-50679-3 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-50679-3 (ISBN)
This Element explores Wittgenstein's critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations, which presents a series of arguments, suggestions, questions, examples and thought-experiments whose purpose is to undermine the temptation to think of sensations and perceptual experiences as private objects occupying a private phenomenal space.
Wittgenstein's critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations does not attempt to refute the possibility of a private sensation-language, let alone in any one argument, as has often been thought. Nor does it aim to establish that language is intrinsically social. Instead, PI §§243–315 presents a series of arguments, suggestions, questions, examples and thought-experiments whose purpose is to undermine the temptation to think of sensations and perceptual experiences as private objects occupying a private phenomenal space. These themes are clear developments of Wittgenstein's earlier critique of sense-datum theories (1929–1936) and his insight that naming is more complex than he had assumed in the Tractatus.
Wittgenstein's critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations does not attempt to refute the possibility of a private sensation-language, let alone in any one argument, as has often been thought. Nor does it aim to establish that language is intrinsically social. Instead, PI §§243–315 presents a series of arguments, suggestions, questions, examples and thought-experiments whose purpose is to undermine the temptation to think of sensations and perceptual experiences as private objects occupying a private phenomenal space. These themes are clear developments of Wittgenstein's earlier critique of sense-datum theories (1929–1936) and his insight that naming is more complex than he had assumed in the Tractatus.
1. Introduction; 2. Methodological and exegetical commitments; 3. Privacy and the objectification of sensation and perception; 4. Private language; 5. Solitary speakers; 6. Ontological privacy, epistemic privacy and first-person authority; 7. Avowals; 8. The first wave: verification and memory; 9. The second wave: ostensive definition; 10. The third wave: rules; 11. The fourth wave: stage-setting; 12. The human manometer; 13. The beetle; 14. Epilogue; Abbreviations; References.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-50679-X / 100950679X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-50679-3 / 9781009506793 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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