Contents:
List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction
Part 1 Wittgenstein's later writings: the illusory comfort of an external standpoint 1. Excursus on Wittgenstein's vision of language
Stanley Cavell 2. Non-cognitivism and rule-following
John McDowell 3. Wittgenstein on rules and platonism
David H. Finkelstein 4. What 'There can be no such thing as meaning anything by any word' could possibly mean
Rupert Read 5. Wittgenstein on deconstruction
Martin Stone 6. Wittgenstein's philosophy in relation to political thought
Alice Crary Part 2 The Tractatus as forerunner of Wittgenstein's later writings 7. Ethics, imagination and the method of Wittgenstein's
Tractatus Cora Diamond 8. Elucidation and nonsense in Frege and early Wittgenstein
James Conant 9. Rethinking mathematical necessity
Hilary Putnam 10. Wittgenstein, mathematics and philosophy
Juliet Floyd 1. Does Bismarck have a beetle in his box? The private language argument in the
Tractatus Cora Diamond 12. How to do things with wood: Wittgenstein, Frege and the problem of illogical thought
David R. Cerbone 13. Conceptions of nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein
Edward Witherspoon A dissenting voice 14. Was he trying to whistle it?
P.M.S. Hacker Bibliography Index