Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity: Essays and Exegesis of §§185-242, Volume 2, Second Edition
Copyright © 2009 G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker
Author(s): G. P. Baker, P. M. S. Hacker
Published Online: 26 FEB 2010
Print ISBN: 9781405184083
Online ISBN: 9781444315691
DOI: 10.1002/9781444315691
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The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules.
- Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following
- Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein's conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity
- Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass
- Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years