Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language : An Elementary Exposition [Paperback]

In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.Preface.

Introductory.

The Wittgensteinian Paradox.

The Solution and the 'Private Language' Argument.

Postscript Wittgenstein and Other Minds.

Index.

Saul Kripke has thought uncommonly hard about the central argument of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and produces an uncommonly clear and vivid account of that argument ... clearly and compellingly presented ... an exemplary piece of exposition. Times Literary Supplement A detailed examination of what is clearly a central theme in Wittgenstein's writings. Times Higher Education Supplement Kripke does bring a whole range of things into focus in a striking and provocative way ... What Kripke has achieved, I think, is the first successful translation of what Wittgenstein was saying into the idiom of the contemporary Anglo-American mainstream in philosophy ... full of excellent things. (Australasian Journal of Philosophy)

Saul Kripke has thought uncommonly hard about the central argument of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and produces an uncommonly clear and vivid account of that argument ... clearly and compellingly presented ... an exemplary piece of exposition. (Times Literary Supplement)

A detailed examination of what is clearly a central theme in Wittgenstein's writings. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

Born in Bay Shore, New York, the son of a rabbi (Myer Samuel) and a writer (Dorothy Karp), Saul Kripke demonstrated his genius to his startled parents when he was only 3 years old. He not only drew the logical consequences of ordinary beliefs, but also solved intricate problems in mathematics. As a chlÃ: