Wittgenstein and Naturalism

Kevin M. Cahill is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. He works mainly on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. His publications include The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity (2011).Thomas Raleigh is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Ruhr-University, Bochum. His research is primarily in Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology with particular interest in the work of Wittgenstein. As well as the present volume, he is also the co-editor, together with Jonathan Knowles, of Acquaintance: New Essays (forthcoming).

• Introduction Thomas Raleigh and Kevin M. CahillPart I. Varieties of Naturalism1. Wittgenstein and Naturalism Paul F. Snowdon2. Wittgenstein’s Liberal Naturalism of Human Nature David Macarthur3. Naturalism in the Goldilocks Zone: Wittgenstein’s Delicate Balancing Act Daniel D. Hutto and Glenda SatnePart II. Language: Self, Truth, and Mathematics4. Sensations, Natural Properties, and the Private Language Argument William Child5. Wittgenstein, Self-Knowledge and Nature Annalisa Coliva6. The End of an Affair Charles Travis7. Later Wittgenstein and the Genealogy of Mathematical Necessity Sorin BanguPart III. Animal Minds, Human Psychology8. Minding the Gap: In Defense of Mind-mind Continuity Dorit Bar-On9. Rational Animals Julia Tanney10. Modes of a "Complicated Form of Life": Expression and Human-Animal Continuity Stina BäckströmPart IV. Naturalism and Meta-Philosophy11. Wittgenstein, Hume and Naturalism Benedict Smith12. Wittgensteinian ‘Therapy’, Experimental Philosophy, and Metaphilosophical Naturalism Eugen Fischer13. Representationalism, Metaphysics, Naturalism: Price, Horwich and Beyond Jonathan Knowles14. Do Pragmatic Naturalists Have Souls? Should Anyone be Paid to Worry about it? Bjørn Torgrim Ramberg

"This collection fills a lacuna, as the first volume focusing on the relationship between Wittgenstein and naturalism. It addresses important topics in current philosophical debates and is philosophical rather than exegetical in focus. The essays cover a wide variety of themes and are pertinent both to Wittgenstein scholarship and current debates concerning naturalism." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews