The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein

Since the middle of the 20th century Ludwig Wittgenstein has been an exceptionally influential and controversial figure wherever philosophy is studied. This is the most comprehensive volume ever published on Wittgenstein: thirty-five leading scholars explore the whole range of his thought, offering critical engagement and original interpretation, and tracing his philosophical development. Topics discussed include logic and mathematics, language and mind, epistemology, philosophical methodology, religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Wittgenstein's relation to other founders of analytic philosophy such as Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore is explored. This Handbook is the place to look for a full understanding of Wittgenstein's special importance to modern philosophy.

Oskari Kuusela is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Struggle Against Dogmatism: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy (Harvard UP, 2008) and the co-editor of Wittgenstein's Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker (Blackwell, 2007). Professor Marie McGinn is Professor Emerita of the University of York, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She is author of Sense and Certainty (Blackwell, 1989), Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge, 1997), Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language (OUP, 2007), and Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations, 2nd Edition (Routledge, forthcoming).

- Part I: Introduction - Editors' Introduction - 1: Brian McGuinness: Wittgenstein and Biography - Part II: Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics - 2: Gregory Landini: Wittgenstein Reads Russell - 3: Colin Johnston: Assertion, Saying, and Propositional Complexity in Wittgenstein's Tractatus - 4: Wolfgang Kienzler: Wittgenstein and Frege - 5: A. W. Moore: Wittgenstein and Infinity - 6: Michael Potter: Wittgenstein on Mathematics - 7: Matthieu Marion: Wittgenstein on Surveyability of Proofs - 8: Simo Säätelä: From Logical Method to 'Messing About': Wittgenstein on 'Open Problems' in Mathematics - Part III: Philosophy of Language - 9: Charles Travis: The Proposition's Progress - 10: Ian Proops: Logical Atomism in Russell and Wittgenstein - 11: Cora Diamond: The Tractatus and the Limits of Sense - 12: Edward Minar: The Life of the Sign: Rule-Following, Practice, and Agreement - 13: Barry Stroud: Meaning and Understanding - 14: David R. Cerbone: Wittgenstein and Idealism - 15: David Stern: Private Language - 16: Lars Hertzberg: Very General Facts of Nature - Part IV: Philosophy of Mind - 17: William Child: Wittgenstein on the First Person - 18: Paul Snowdon: Private Experience and Sense Data - 19: Joachim Schulte: Privacy - 20: John Hyman: Wittgenstein on Action and the Will - 21: Edward Witherspoon: Wittgenstein on Criteria and the Problem of Other Minds - 22: Michel ter Hark: Wittgenstein on the Experience of Meaning and Secondary Use - Part V: Epistemology - 23: Duncan Pritchard: Wittgenstein on Scepticism - 24: Thomas Baldwin: Wittgenstein and Moore - 25: Kim van Gennip: Wittgenstein on Intuition, Rule-following, and Certainty: Exchanges with Brouwer and Russell - Part VI: Method - 26: Oskari Kuusela: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy - 27: James Conant: Wittgenstein's Methods - 28: Marie McGinn: Grammar in the Philosophical Investigations - 29: Beth Savickey: Wittgenstein's Use of Examples - 30: Avner Baz: Aspect Perception and Philosophical Difficulty - 31: Marjorie Perloff: Writing Philosophy as Poetry: Literary Form in Wittgenstein - 32: Joel Backström: Wittgenstein and the Moral Dimension of Philosophical Problems - Part VII: Religion, Aesthetics, Ethics - 33: Stephen Mulhall: Wittgenstein on Religious Belief - 34: Malcolm Budd: Wittgenstein on Aesthetics - 35: Anne-Marie S. Christensen: Wittgenstein and Ethics - Index