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More About This Title Wittgenstein's Later Theory of Meaning: Imagination and Calculation
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- Explores the significance of Wittgenstein’s later texts relating to the philosophy of language, and offers new insights that transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopher
- Provides original interpretations of the systematic points about language in Wittgenstein’s later writings that reveal his theory of meaning
- Engages in close readings of a variety of Wittgenstein’s later texts to explore what the philosopher really had to say about ‘kinds of words’ and ‘parts of speech’
- Frees Wittgenstein from his reputation as an unsystematic thinker with nothing to offer but ‘therapy’ for individual cases of philosophical confusion
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Hans Julius Schneider is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His publications include Phantasie und Kalkül (1992) and Religion (2008). He also served as a co-editor of the journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie for a number of years and has made several contributions to this publication as well as numerous other philosophical essay collections.
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Acknowledgments vii
Foreword by Charles Taylor viii
Introduction 1
1 The Fregean Perspective and Concomitant Expectations One Brings to Wittgenstein 7
2 How a Language Game Becomes Extended 21
3 Kinds of Expression 35
4 “Function” in Language Games and in Sentential Contexts 47
5 The Sound of a Sentence I: Singing from the Score 67
6 Projection: No Mere Mapping but a Creative Activity 83
7 The Sound of a Sentence II: Surface Grammar 98
8 Complexity 104
9 An Integration of Wittgenstein and Frege? 115
10 Dummett’s Doubts and Frege’s Concept of “Sense” 128
11 Wittgenstein on “Communicating Something” 137
12 “Grammatical Sense” and “Syntactic Metaphor”: A Wittgensteinian Solution 152
13 A “Theory of Meaning” – In What Sense? 166
Index 180
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"Schneider's penetrating and original reading transformed my understanding of the later Wittgenstein."
—Robert B. Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
“Schneider’s originality shows itself in his forceful way of pointing out that certain insights articulated by Wittgenstein can be used to clarify those aspects of the Frege-Dummett project of constructing a systematic theory of meaning that may continue to inspire imaginative new work in the philosophy of language.”
—Joachim Schulte, University of Zurich