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Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
 9780521886130, 9780511743009, 9780511744075, 9780511750939, 0511750935

Table of contents :
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction Arif Ahmed
1. From referentialism to human action: the Augustinian theory of language Robert Hanna
2. What's doing? Activity, naming and Wittgenstein's response to Augustine Michael Luntley
3. Measure for measure? Wittgenstein on language-game criteria and the Paris standard metre bar Dale Jacquette
4. Wittgenstein on family resemblance concepts Michael Forster
5. Wittgenstein on concepts Hans-Johann Glock
6. Wittgenstein vs contextualism Jason Bridges
7. Wittgenstein and the linguistic turn Richard Rorty
8. Rorty's Wittgenstein Paul Horwich
9. Are meaning, understanding, etc. definite states? John McDowell
10. Another strand in the private language argument David Stern
11. Deductive inference and aspect perception Arif Ahmed
12. Remembering intentions William Child
Bibliography
Index.

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