Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Toward a Phenomenology of Truth
This book assesses the respective prospects of two competing methodological approaches to the study of meaning and communication, as well truth and inference, each figuring prominently within the analytic tradition of philosophy of language.

The first, ‘logistical’ approach is characterized by the employment of de-compositional logical analysis designed to resolve various theoretically problematic semantic and logical puzzles.The representative proponents of this approach are the three great early analytic philosophers (Frege, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein).

The second, ‘phenomenological’ approach, by contrast, instead advocates careful inspection and detailed description of our actual linguistic practices, along with general features of the ordinary circumstances, and lived experiences, in which they are situated. The aim of such description is then to dissolve the aforementioned puzzles by showing them to derive from key misunderstandings of these practices and circumstances. The principle proponent here is the later Wittgenstein.

Expanding upon the work of the later Wittgenstein, this book argues that considerations regarding the nature of following a rule, and deriving from the impossibility of private languages, decisively recommend the phenomenological over the logistical methodology, in particular because these considerations demand that we identify linguistic meanings with the disciplined uses of words within public, and proto-typically social, linguistic practices.

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Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Toward a Phenomenology of Truth
This book assesses the respective prospects of two competing methodological approaches to the study of meaning and communication, as well truth and inference, each figuring prominently within the analytic tradition of philosophy of language.

The first, ‘logistical’ approach is characterized by the employment of de-compositional logical analysis designed to resolve various theoretically problematic semantic and logical puzzles.The representative proponents of this approach are the three great early analytic philosophers (Frege, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein).

The second, ‘phenomenological’ approach, by contrast, instead advocates careful inspection and detailed description of our actual linguistic practices, along with general features of the ordinary circumstances, and lived experiences, in which they are situated. The aim of such description is then to dissolve the aforementioned puzzles by showing them to derive from key misunderstandings of these practices and circumstances. The principle proponent here is the later Wittgenstein.

Expanding upon the work of the later Wittgenstein, this book argues that considerations regarding the nature of following a rule, and deriving from the impossibility of private languages, decisively recommend the phenomenological over the logistical methodology, in particular because these considerations demand that we identify linguistic meanings with the disciplined uses of words within public, and proto-typically social, linguistic practices.

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Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Toward a Phenomenology of Truth

Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Toward a Phenomenology of Truth

by James Connelly
Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Toward a Phenomenology of Truth

Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Toward a Phenomenology of Truth

by James Connelly

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This book assesses the respective prospects of two competing methodological approaches to the study of meaning and communication, as well truth and inference, each figuring prominently within the analytic tradition of philosophy of language.

The first, ‘logistical’ approach is characterized by the employment of de-compositional logical analysis designed to resolve various theoretically problematic semantic and logical puzzles.The representative proponents of this approach are the three great early analytic philosophers (Frege, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein).

The second, ‘phenomenological’ approach, by contrast, instead advocates careful inspection and detailed description of our actual linguistic practices, along with general features of the ordinary circumstances, and lived experiences, in which they are situated. The aim of such description is then to dissolve the aforementioned puzzles by showing them to derive from key misunderstandings of these practices and circumstances. The principle proponent here is the later Wittgenstein.

Expanding upon the work of the later Wittgenstein, this book argues that considerations regarding the nature of following a rule, and deriving from the impossibility of private languages, decisively recommend the phenomenological over the logistical methodology, in particular because these considerations demand that we identify linguistic meanings with the disciplined uses of words within public, and proto-typically social, linguistic practices.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739199541
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/16/2015
Pages: 282
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

James Connelly is Professor of Politics at the University of Hull, UK. He has co-edited an edition of RG Collingwood's An Essay on Philosophical Method (2005) and published Metaphysics, Method and Politics: the Political Philosophy of RG Collingwood in 2003.

Table of Contents

Part one: The Semantic Problematic of Early Analytic Philosophy

Chapter 1: Frege: Logicism and the Laws of Truth

Chapter 2: Russell: From the Principles of Mathematics to the Theory of Knowledge

Chapter 3: Normativity and Method in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

Part two: Normativity and Method in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

Chapter 4: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Early Analytic Semantics

Chapter 5: Wittgenstein on Private Language and Following a Rule

Chapter 6: Subjectivity and the Living Human Body

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