Rails to Infinity: Essays on Themes from Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

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Preface PART 1: WITTGENSTEIN AND RULES 1. Following a Rule 2. Rule-Following, Objectivity and the Theory of Meaning 3. Rule-Following, Meaning and Constructivism PART 2: WITTGENSTEIN'S ARGUMENT AS IT STRUCK KRIPKE 4. Kripke's Account of the Argument against Private Language 5. On Making Up One's Mind: Wittgenstein on Intention 6. Excerpts from a Critical Study of Cohn McGinn's Wittgenstein on Meaning 7. Wittgenstein's Rule-Following Considerations and the Central Project of Theoretical Linguistics PART 3: PRIVACY AND SELF- KNOWLEDGE 8. Does Philosophical Investigations 258-60 Suggest a Cogent Argument against Private Language? 9. Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mind: Sensation, Privacy and Intention 10. The Problem of Self-Knowledge (I) 11. The Problem of Self-Knowledge (II) PART 4: RULE-FOLLOWING AND MATHEMATICS 12. Skolem and the Sceptic 13. Wittgenstein on Mathematical Proof POSTSCRIPTS Study Note on Wittgenstein on the Nature of Philosophy and Its Proper Method On Mind and Worldbr /> References and Additional Readings Credits Index

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