Wittgenstein and Reason

John Preston is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading.

• Preface vii1 Wittgenstein’s Critique of Frazer 1Jacques Bouveresse2 Relativism, Commensurability and Translatability 21Hans-Johann Glock3 ‘Back to the Rough Ground!’ Wittgensteinian Reflections on Rationality and Reason 47Jane Heal4 Worlds or Words Apart? Wittgenstein on Understanding Religious Language 65Genia Schönbaumsfeld5 The Tightrope Walker 85Severin Schroeder6 Rules and Reason 107Joachim Schulte7 Rule-Following without Reasons: Wittgenstein’s Quietism and the Constitutive Question 123Crispin WrightIndex 145

“Taken as a whole, this volume provides an extremely valuable and critically astute examination of utterly fundamental issues that need serious attention and investigation in today's philosophical climate—it constitutes a 'must read'.” (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 2009) “Preston (philosophy, Univ. of Reading) offers scholarly pieces that explore the connections in his work between reason and relativism, the reasonableness of religious belief, and Wittgenstein's notion of rule following. Recommended for academic research libraries.” (Library Journal, November 2008)