Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'

This volume challenges our understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophy on well-known themes like thought and intentionality, and language games.

List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Arif Ahmed; 1. From referentialism to human action: the Augustinian theory of language Robert Hanna; 2. What's doing? Activity, naming and Wittgenstein's response to Augustine Michael Luntley; 3. Measure for measure? Wittgenstein on language-game criteria and the Paris standard metre bar Dale Jacquette; 4. Wittgenstein on family resemblance concepts Michael Forster; 5. Wittgenstein on concepts Hans-Johann Glock; 6. Wittgenstein vs contextualism Jason Bridges; 7. Wittgenstein and the linguistic turn Richard Rorty; 8. Rorty's Wittgenstein Paul Horwich; 9. Are meaning, understanding, etc. definite states? John McDowell; 10. Another strand in the private language argument David Stern; 11. Deductive inference and aspect perception Arif Ahmed; 12. Remembering intentions William Child; Bibliography; Index.