The Significance of Aspect Perception: Bringing the Phenomenal World into View [Paperback]

In this volume, Baz offers a wide-ranging discussion of Wittgensteins remarks on aspect-perception, with special focus on Wittgensteins method. Baz starts out with an interpretation of Wittgensteins remarks on aspects and continues with attempts to characterize and defend Wittgensteins approach to the understanding and dissolution of philosophical difficulties. Baz ends with attempts to articulateunder the inspiration of Merleau-Pontys phenomenologycertain dissatisfactions, both with Wittgensteins remarks on aspect perception, and with his philosophical approach more generally. 

On the way, Baz explores connections between Wittgensteins remarks on aspects and Kants aesthetics. He examines ways in which the remarks on aspects may be brought to bear on contemporary philosophical work on perception. He discusses some of the implications of Wittgensteins work on aspect perception for issues in moral philosophy and the philosophy of action.

Chapter 1. Whats the Point of Seeing Aspects?.- Chapter 2. On Learning from Wittgenstein; or What does it Take to See the Grammar of Seeing Aspects?.- Chapter 3. Aspect Perception and Philosophical Difficulty.- Chapter 4. The Sound of Bedrock: Lines of Grammar between Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell.- Chapter 5. Aspects of Perception.- Chapter 6. Motivational Indeterminacy.- Chapter 7. Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of What Normally Goes Without Saying.- Chapter 8. Bringing the Phenomenal World into View.Avner Baz is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the Author of When Words are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy (Harvard, 2012), and The Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (Oxford, 2017). He has also published papers on Kants Ethics and Aesthetics, on Wittgenstein, on J. L. Austin and Orl“Ÿ