1st Edition

Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language Some Aspects of its Development

By James Bogen Copyright 1972
    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2005. This book studies the often overlooked work of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus, the Tractatus and their later work being argued as being mutually illuminating. Bogen states that the works of Wittgenstein require a study of their points of contact which led to the formation of this title. This is accomplished by studying the text in two parts: its relevance to picture theory, the subsequent abandonment of the picture theory.

    Introduction

    PART 1: The picture theory and the Tractatus Ontology

    1. A sketch of the picture theory of language

    2. The thesis that the meaning of a name is its bearer, and the determinancy of sense

    3. Names and simple objects

    4. Wittgenstein's later discussion of simples

    PART 2: The Abandonment of the picture theory

    1. The problem of intentionality and the shipwreck of the picture theory

    2. The intentionality of assertions

    3. Consequences of Wittgenstein's post-tractarian account of intentionality for doctrines of the Tractatus and for the course of Wittgenstein's later work

    PART 3: Use

    1. The 'calculus theory' and anti-psychologism

    2. Wittgenstein's rejection of the calculus theory

    3. Is there a later account of use?

    4 Simples again.

     

     

    Biography

    James Bogen, Pitzer College, Claremont, California