Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P. M. S. Hacker

by Hans-Johann Glock, John Hyman

Overview

Peter Hacker is one of the most notable interpreters of Wittgenstein's work, a powerful and sophisticated exponent of Wittgensteinian ideas, and a distinguished historian of the analytic tradition. Thirteen leading philosophers and Wittgenstein scholars offer specially written essays in honor of Hacker. Their contributions deal with a variety of themes associated with Wittgenstein. Some deal with issues of Wittgenstein scholarship and interpretation, including areas that have attracted an increasing amount of attention, such as ethics and religion. Others deal with central topics from the history of analytic philosophy. Finally there are essays that explore and assess Wittgensteinian ideas, in some cases as developed by Hacker, in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, or in related areas such as the philosophy of action and the philosophy of neuroscience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199213238
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/19/2009
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Until 2006, he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading (UK). He has held research fellowships at St. John's College, Oxford, Bielefeld University, and Rhodes University, South Africa.

John Hyman is a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and Editor of The British Journal of Aesthetics. He was a Getty Scholar in 2001-2002, a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2002-2003, and Chairman of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford in 2003-2005.

Table of Contents

Preface, Hans-Johann Glock, (University of Zurich) and John Hyman, (University of Oxford)

1. Wittgenstein's Knight Move: Hacker on Wittgenstein's Influence on Analytic Philosophy, Avishai Margali, (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
2. Wittgenstein and Frege's 'Logical Investigations', Wolfgang Künne, (Hamburg University)
3. 'Moses': Wittgenstein on Names, Joachim Schulte, (University of Zürich)
4. Analytic Truths and Grammatical Propositions, Severin Schroeder, (University of Reading)
5. Back to the Rough Ground: Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language, Jack Canfield, (University of Toronto)
6. The Private Language Argument, Bede Rundle, (Trinity College, Oxford)
7. Language-Games and Language: Rules, Normality Conditions and Conversation, Stephen Mulhall, (New College, Oxford)
8. Wittgenstein's Ethics: Boundaries and Boundary Crossings, Hans Oberdiek
9. The Lessons of Life: Wittgenstein, Religion and Analytic Philosophy, John Cottingham, (University of Reading)
10. Hard and Easy Questions about Consciousness, John Dupré, (University of Exeter)
11. Cognitive Scientism, Anthony Kenny, (University of Oxford)
12. Knowing How To and Knowing That, David Wiggins, (University of Oxford)
13. Action, Content and Inference, Jonathan Dancy, (University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin)

P.M.S. Hacker - Bibliography