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Author Nielsen, Keld Stehr

Title The Evolution of the Private Language Argument
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages)
Series Ashgate Wittgensteinian Studies
Ashgate Wittgensteinian studies.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I: Between the Wars; 2 The Dispute between Carnap and Neurath; 2.1 The Vienna Circle Before 1932; 2.2 The Unity of Science; 2.3 Carnap's Private Language Argument; 2.4 Neurath's Private Language Argument; 2.5 Private Language and the Vienna Circle's Agenda; 3 Wittgenstein's Early Concerns About Privacy; 3.1 The Transition to Physicalism; 3.2 The Phenomenological Language Argument; 3.3 Consequences of the Phenomenological Argument; 3.4 The Motivation of the Early Private Language Arguments
4 Wittgenstein in Transition -- The Later Material4.1 The 1941 Private Object Argument; 4.2 The Difference in Approach; 4.3 Wittgenstein's Contemporaries and the Privacy Issue; Part II: Post-War Effects of Philosophical Investigations; 5 Reviews and Reactions; 5.1 The Reductio Argument; 5.2 The Solitary Language Argument; 5.3 The External Argument; 5.4 Pain-Expressions as Criteria; 5.5 Malcolm on Use and Ordinary Language; 6 The Availability of an Argument; 6.1 Post-War Doubts and Cartesianism; 6.2 The Reductio Argument and Verificationism; 6.3 Malcolm's Account of Criteria
6.4 Sensations and Sensation Language7 Ordinary Sensation Language; 7.1 Cook on Privacy and Ordinary Language; 7.2 The Ordinary Language Methodology; 7.3 Reinterpreting Wittgenstein; 7.4 Lessons from Ordinary Language Philosophy; Part III: Language within Philosophy; 8 The Problem with Private Ostensive Definitions; 8.1 Approaching Philosophical Investigations Anew; 8.2 The Change of Focus; 8.3 Overcoming Verificationism; 8.4 The New Role of Language in Philosophy; 9 The Rule-following Considerations; 9.1 The Problem of Following a Rule; 9.2 The Kripkean Private Language Argument
9.3 Making Room for the Community9.4 The Sceptical Paradox and the Private Theory; 10 Revisiting Philosophical Investigations; 10.1 The Memory-Criteria Argument; 10.2 Strategic Clarifications; 10.3 The Demand for Criteria: Language Essentials; 10.4 The Manometer-Beetle Argument; 10.5 Wittgenstein's Target; 10.6 The Notion of 'Use'; 11 Private Language Arguments, Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
SUBJECT Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 fast
Subject Private language problem.
Analysis (Philosophy)
Analysis (Philosophy)
Private language problem
Form Electronic book
Author Phillips, Professor D. Z
Ruhr, Dr. Mario von der
ISBN 9781351890120
1351890123