Essays after Wittgenstein / / J.F.M. Hunter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hunter, J.F.M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; How do you mean? --; Personal identity --; Imagining --; Some questions about dreaming --; Telling --; The concept of pain --; On how we talk --; Logical compulsion
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487599768; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487599768
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: J.F.M. Hunter.

Written within the tradition of Wittgenstein's work, these eight original essays in philosophical psychology are either by-products of efforts to understand Wittgenstein's later writings or applications of techniques and approaches derived from Wittgenstein to problems about which he did not say a great deal. In much of his later writings, Wittgenstein was not so much trying to explain his own views as to tease, annoy, and confuse the reader into working our for himself solutions to some philosophical problems. Professor Hunter, goaded and guided by Wittgenstein, here presents in clear and plain prose the views that he has worked out on a number of different questions. Although the essays are not exegetical in form, they will be found by students of the great philosopher to contain a large number of novel suggestions as to how Wittgenstein might be interpreted; philosophers, psychologists, linguists, and mathematicians are offered an unconventional, interesting, and richly argued approach to some of the main problems in philosophical psychology. The essays treat Meaning, Telling, Pain, Logical Compulsion, Identity, Imagining, Dreaming, and Talking. One eminent scholar has predicted that this volume may reverse the present tendency of philosophers to follow the lead of Noam Chomsky in the philosophy of language.