The Later Wittgenstein on Language [Hardcover]

This volume brings together distinguished Wittgenstein scholars and renowned philosophers of language in order to examine what Wittgenstein has to say about language and to assess its significance for contemporary philosophy.Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Whiting Wittgenstein's Definition of 'Meaning' as 'Use'; P.Horwich Meaning and Use; P.M.S Hacker The Use of Pejoratives; T.Williamson Wittgenstein's Externalism; W.Child Wittgenstein and Expressivism; D.Macarthur Meaning and Context: A Survey of a Contemporary Debate; E.Borg Particular and General: Wittgenstein, Linguistic Rules, and Context; D.Whiting Necessity, a Priority and Analyticity: A Wittgensteinian Perspective; H-J.Glock Es braucht die Regel nicht: Wittgenstein on Rules and Meaning; K.Gl?er & ?.Wikforss Kripke's Wittgenstein, Factualism and Meaning; A.Miller Transcendental Idealism in Wittgenstein, and Theories of Meaning; A.W.Moore Kripke's Wittgenstein, On Certainty, and Epistemic Relativism; M.Kusch Bibliography Index

'Daniel Whiting has brought together a collection of papers on the late philosophy of Wittgenstein, each of which, whether as a whole or in part, has something to offer to the reader...the collection is to be highly recommended.' - The Philosophical Quarterly

EMMA BORG is Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, UKWILLIAM CHILD is Fellow and Tutor at University College and University Lecturer at the University of Oxford, UKHANS-JOHANN GLOCK is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Z?rich, Switzerland.KATHRIN GL?ER is Professor in Theoretical Philosophy, Stockholm University. SwedenP. M. S. HACKER is Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Oxford, UKPAUL HORWICH is Professor of Philosophy, New York University, USAMARTIN KUSCH is Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UKDAVID MACARTHUR is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sydney, AustraliaALEXANDER MILLER is Profl“0