Drawing on ten years of research on the unpublished Wittgenstein
papers, Stern investigates what motivated Wittgenstein's philosophical
writing and casts new light on the _Tractatus_ and _Philosophical
Investigations_. The book is an exposition of Wittgenstein's early
conception of the nature of representation and how his later revision
and criticism of that work led to a radically different way of looking
at mind and language. It also explains how the unpublished manuscripts
and typescripts were put together and why they often provide better
evidence of the development of his ideas than can be found in his
published writing. In doing so, the book traces the development of a
number of central themes in Wittgenstein's philosophy, including his
conception of philosophical method, the picture theory of meaning, the
limits of language, the application of language to experience, his
treatment of private language, and what he called the "flow of life."
Arguing that Wittgenstein's views are often much more simple (and more
radical) than we have been led to believe, _Wittgenstein on Mind and
Language_ provides an overview of the development of Wittgenstein's
philosophy and brings to light aspects of his philosophy that have
been almost universally neglected.
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9780198024170
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2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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