Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy

José Medina is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Necessity and Intelligibility in the Tractatus 1.1. Possibility and Necessity in the Tractatus1.2. What's Color Got to Do with It?1.3. The Myth of 'Hidden Bodies'1.4. Deflationism and Realism in the Tractatus 2. From Pictures to Yardsticks: The Colorful Transformations of the Tractarian View of Language 2.1. Let the Phenomena Speak for Themselves!2.2. The Emergence of the Satzsystem Conception of Language 3. The Calculus View of Language: Meaning and Rules 3.1. Rules as Constitutive of Meaning3.2. Local Holism, Verificationism, and the Proliferation Problem 3.3. Idealizing Language: The Autonomy of Rules 4. The "Unbridgeable Gulf" between Rule and Application 4.1. Frege on Applicability4.2. The "Internal Relation" between Rule and Application4.3. Is Grammar Up to Me? 5. Internal Relations in Action: Following a Rule versus Conforming with It 5.1. Searching for a Differentia Specifica5.2. The Irrelevance of Learning: Reasons and Causes5.3. From Possible Applications to Actual Uses 6. Normativity in Practice: Learning and Techniques 6.1. Psychologism and "Logical Madness"6.2. Learning and Necessity6.3. Back to the Rough Ground!6.4. The Role of the Community: Contextualism and Quietism in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy Notes References Index

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