"Baker and Hacker...exhibit persuasively and lucidly the order...underlying the apparently haphazard assemblage of paragraphs constituting the printed text of the Investigations." The Review of Metaphysics "Its detailed textual comments are placed within a carefully thought out view of the structure ot the whole. It thus provides a model for understanding Wittgenstein." Philosophical Studies.
Wittgenstein believed that the best way to understand the "Philosophical Investigations" was to come to it via the "Tractatus". The author shares this belief and in this book presents the dramatic conflict between two radically different philosophical positions. Contrary to some current interpretations, Malcolm believes that when Witgenstein wrote the "Investigations" he had an exact knowledge …
Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the twentieth century, but he is also one of the least accessible. This volume provides a comprehensible guide to his work by a wide range of experts who are actively engaged in new work on Wittgenstein. The essays, which are both expository and original, address central themes in his philosophy of mind, language, …