Wittgenstein on Practice - Back to the Rough Ground
The first volume devoted to the topic of Wittgenstein and practice. Contains essays from both internationally recognized and up-and-coming scholars. Directed at contemporary issues
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About this book
This volume brings together twelve previously unpublished essays on the theme of Wittgenstein on practice and on the insight that careful attention to human or animal activity is essential for thinking about philosophical problems. While Wittgenstein鈥檚 thought frames the collection as a whole, each chapter aims first and foremost at rigorous philosophical argument directed at contemporary issues. In this sense, each contribution 鈥渄rafts鈥� Wittgenstein on practice either by following in his wake, or by critiquing some aspect of his thought, or both.
This book is essential reading for all scholars and researchers of Wittgenstein and of philosophical methods.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
-Introduction,听Kevin M. Cahill
And End to Skimming
-The (Hard) Practice of Reading: On the Use and Misuse of Wittgenstein for Literature,听Nancy Yousef
Learning to Go on
-鈥淔ollowing a Rule鈥� Is a Practice,听Lars Hertzberg
-Kripke and Wittgenstein on Rule-Following: The Problem of Empty Philosophical Explanations,听Oskari Kuusela
-Wittgenstein, Meaning and Action,听Val茅rie Aucouturier
-What Is a Context?,听Martin Gustafsson
Counting Matters
-The Bolshevik Menace of Anthropological Mathematics: Ramsey and Wittgenstein,听Cheryl Misak
-Technik and Praxis in Later Wittgenstein,听Juliet Floyd
-Mathematics and Aspect-Seeing,听Reshef Agam-Segal
-Entering a Practice of Mathematical Proof: On the Difficulty of Teaching Proofs,听Kim-Erik Berts
Agreeable Animals
-Social Ontology, Evolution, and the Foundations of Practice Theory,听Mark Risjord
-鈥淧ractices, Normativity, and the Natural History of Human Biological Niche Construction鈥�,听Joseph Rouse
-Avoiding 鈥淭ack-on鈥� Theories of Culture,听Kevin M. Cahill
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