Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

Emmanuel Bermon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bordeaux. He is a former member of the Institut universitaire de France and of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author of Le cogito dans la pensée de saint Augustin (Paris: Vrin, 2001), La signification et l’enseignement: commentaire du De magistro de saint Augustin (Paris: Vrin, 2007).Jean-Philippe Narboux is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bordeaux. He is a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has recently published “Showing, the Middle Voice and the Unity of the Tractatus” (Philosophical Topics, volume 42, 2, 2016). He is the editor of The Legacy of Thompson Clarke (Brill, 2014) and co-editor (with J.M. Mouillie) of Sartre, L’être et le néant: nouvelles lectures (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015).

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Emmanuel Bermon).- Chapter 2. Reading Philosophical Investigations Resolutely (Kelly Dean Jolley).- Chapter 3. Wittgenstein Reads Augustine (Emmanuel Bermon).- Chapter 4. Devising a Logical Notation in a Contextualist World (Denis Perrin).- Chapter 5. Wittgenstein, Language, and Chess (Martin Gustafsson).- Chapter 6.  Faust’s Way (Charles Travis).- Chapter 7. Simplicity and Rigidity: Reading PI §50 after Kripke (Jean-Philippe Narboux).

“Finding one's way was published for Wittgenstein scholars. … It is high-level scholarship, which should command the attention of anyone involved in Wittgenstein exegesis.” (David Moore Sherry, Mathematical Reviews, October, 2019)