{"product_id":"9781118951804","title":"Wittgenstein Meaning and Mind (Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations), Part 1: Essays","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWittgenstein\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMeaning and Mind (Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations), Part 1: Essays\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eP. M. S. Hacker\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ History \u0026amp; Surveys \/ Modern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWittgenstein: Meaning and Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is the third volume of a four-volume analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations,\u003c\/i\u003e consisting of two parts. Part 1 is a sequence of fifteen essays that examine in detail all the major topics discussed in \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e §§243-427. These include the private language arguments, privacy, private ostensive definition, the nature of the mind, the inner and the outer, behaviour and behaviourism, thought, imagination, the self, consciousness, and criteria. Published in 1990 to widespread acclaim as a scholarly \u003ci\u003etour de force,\u003c\/i\u003e the first edition of this volume of essays provides a comprehensive survey of these themes, the history of their treatment in early modern and modern philosophy, the development of Wittgenstein's ideas on these subjects from 1929 onwards, and an elaborate analysis of his definitive arguments in the \u003ci\u003eInvestigations.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new second edition has been thoroughly revised by the author and features four new essays. These include a survey of the evolution of the private language arguments in Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e and their role within the developing argument of the \u003ci\u003eInvestigations,\u003c\/i\u003e a comprehensive essay on private ownership of experience and its pitfalls, a detailed examination and defence of Wittgenstein's repudiation of subjective knowledge of one's experience, and an overview of the achievement and importance of the private language arguments. Revised essays examine new objections to Wittgenstein's arguments – which are found wanting– and incorporate new materials from the \u003ci\u003eNachlass\u003c\/i\u003e that were not known to exist in 1990. All references have been adjusted to the revised fourth edition of the \u003ci\u003eInvestigations,\u003c\/i\u003e but previous pagination in the first and second editions has been retained in parentheses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese revisions bring the book up to the high standard of the extensively revised editions of \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2005) and \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley Blackwell, 2009). They ensure that this survey of Wittgenstein's private language arguments and of his accounts of thought, imagination, consciousness, the self, and criteria will remain the essential reference work on the \u003ci\u003eInvestigations\u003c\/i\u003e for the foreseeable future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eP. M. S. Hacker\u003c\/b\u003e is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume \u003ci\u003eAnalytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e (1980-96), the first two volumes co-authored with G.P. Baker, and of the epilogue \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Place in Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1996). He has written extensively on philosophy and neuroscience—\u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Foundations of Neuroscience\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2003) and \u003ci\u003eHistory of Cognitive Neuroscience\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley Blackwell, 2008), both co-authored with M.R. Bennett. He has published three volumes of a tetralogy on human nature: \u003ci\u003eHuman Nature: The Categorial Framework\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Intellectual Powers: A Study of Human Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), and \u003ci\u003eThe Passions: A Study of Human Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley Blackwell, 2018). He is currently completing the final volume – \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming). Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the fourth edition and extensively revised translation of Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley Blackwell, 2009). They are currently working on a new edition and translation of Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17 June 2019\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781118951804\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e352\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22.4\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44315373797516,"sku":"9781118951804","price":104.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781118951804_beb5c3b4-6569-4c40-ab2b-6b0bb7e9814b.jpg?v=1780110536","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781118951804","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}