Wittgenstein on Practice - Back to the Rough Ground
The first volume devoted to the topic of Wittgenstein and practice. Contains essays from both internationally recognized and up-and-coming scholars. Directed at contemporary issues
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About this book
This volume brings together twelve previously unpublished essays on the theme of Wittgenstein on practice and on the insight that careful attention to human or animal activity is essential for thinking about philosophical problems. While Wittgenstein’s thought frames the collection as a whole, each chapter aims first and foremost at rigorous philosophical argument directed at contemporary issues. In this sense, each contribution “drafts” Wittgenstein on practice either by following in his wake, or by critiquing some aspect of his thought, or both.
This book is essential reading for all scholars and researchers of Wittgenstein and of philosophical methods.
Table of contents (13 chapters)
-Introduction, Kevin M. Cahill
And End to Skimming
-The (Hard) Practice of Reading: On the Use and Misuse of Wittgenstein for Literature, Nancy Yousef
Learning to Go on
-“Following a Rule” Is a Practice, Lars Hertzberg
-Kripke and Wittgenstein on Rule-Following: The Problem of Empty Philosophical Explanations, Oskari Kuusela
-Wittgenstein, Meaning and Action, Valérie Aucouturier
-What Is a Context?, Martin Gustafsson
Counting Matters
-The Bolshevik Menace of Anthropological Mathematics: Ramsey and Wittgenstein, Cheryl Misak
-Technik and Praxis in Later Wittgenstein, Juliet Floyd
-Mathematics and Aspect-Seeing, Reshef Agam-Segal
-Entering a Practice of Mathematical Proof: On the Difficulty of Teaching Proofs, Kim-Erik Berts
Agreeable Animals
-Social Ontology, Evolution, and the Foundations of Practice Theory, Mark Risjord
-“Practices, Normativity, and the Natural History of Human Biological Niche Construction”, Joseph Rouse
-Avoiding “Tack-on” Theories of Culture, Kevin M. Cahill