Offers a new approach to Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Explores the relation between early and later Wittgenstein

Presents a novel perspective on the relation between logic and language

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Emmanuel Bermon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bordeaux. He is a former member of the Institut universitaire de France and of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author of Le cogito dans la pensée de saint Augustin (Paris: Vrin, 2001), La signification et l'enseignement: commentaire du De magistro de saint Augustin (Paris: Vrin, 2007).

Jean-Philippe Narboux is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bordeaux. He is a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has recently published Showing, the Middle Voice and the Unity of the Tractatus ( Philosophical Topics , volume 42, 2, 2016). He is the editor of The Legacy of Thompson Clarke (Brill, 2014) and co-editor (with J.M. Mouillie) of Sartre, L'être et le néant : nouvelles lectures (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015).

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Offers a new approach to Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein Explores the relation between early and later Wittgenstein Presents a novel perspective on the relation between logic and language

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction (Emmanuel Bermon).- Chapter 2. Reading Philosophical Investigations Resolutely (Kelly Dean Jolley).- Chapter 3. Wittgenstein Reads Augustine (Emmanuel Bermon).- Chapter 4. Devising a Logical Notation in a Contextualist World (Denis Perrin).- Chapter 5. Wittgenstein, Language, and Chess (Martin Gustafsson).- Chapter 6. Faust's Way (Charles Travis).- Chapter 7. Simplicity and Rigidity: Reading PI §50 after Kripke (Jean-Philippe Narboux).