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41. What's Wrong With Microphysicalism?

    By Andreas Huttemann

    Series: International Library of Philosophy

    'Microphysicalism', the view that whole objects behave the way they do in virtue of the behaviour of their constituent parts, is an influential contemporary view with a long philosophical and scientific heritage. In What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? Andreas Hüttemann offers a fresh challenge to...

    Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge
42. From Kant to Davidson

    Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental

    Edited by Jeff Malpas

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

    Recent philosophy has seen the idea of the transcendental, first introduced in its modern form in the work of Kant, take on a new prominence.Bringing together an international range of younger philosophers and established thinkers, this volume opens up the idea of the transcendental, examining it...

    Published October 16th 2002 by Routledge
43. Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning

    Towards a Social Conception of Mind

    By Meredith Williams

    Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning offers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental. This book addresses both Wittgenstein's later works as well as...

    Published August 28th 2002 by Routledge
44. Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions

    By David Bloor

    Clearly and engagingly written, this volume is vital reading for students of philosophy and sociology, and anyone interested in Wittgenstein's later thought. David Bloor provides a challenging and informative evaluation of Wittgenstein's account of rules and rule-following. Arguing for a...

    Published January 30th 2002 by Routledge
45. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Second Series

    Edited by David Kilfoyle, Stuart Shanker

    Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

    Wittgenstein scholarship has continued to grow at a pace few could have anticipated - a testament both to the fertility of his thought and to the thriving state of contemporary philosophy. In response to this ever-growing interest in the field, we are delighted to announce the publication of a...

    Published November 14th 2001 by Routledge
46. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    2nd Edition

    By Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...

    Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge
47. Wittgenstein's Art of Investigation

    By Beth Savickey

    Wittgenstein's Art of Investigation is one of the first to focus on and provide an original and detailed analysis of Wittgenstein's grammatical investigations. Beth Sarkey offers us new insight into the historical context and influences on method which will help students understand the intricacies...

    Published July 14th 1999 by Routledge
48. Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights

    By Robin Holt

    Do human rights make sense? They have been central to post-war political life, and our picture of moral self. But this is being eroded, Holt argues, and with it the viability of human rights discourse. The pre-social individual and its mental armoury is being challenged by an increasing awareness...

    Published May 21st 1997 by Routledge
49. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations

    By Marie McGinn

    Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

    Wittgenstein is the most influential twentieth century philosopher in the English-speaking world. In the Philosophical Investigations, his most important work, he introduces the famous 'private language argument' which changed the whole philosophical view of language. Wittgenstein and the...

    Published March 5th 1997 by Routledge
50. Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics

    By Pasquale Frascolla

    Wittgenstein's role was vital in establishing mathematics as one of this century's principal areas of philosophic inquiry. In this book, the three phases of Wittgenstein's reflections on mathematics are viewed as a progressive whole, rather than as separate entities. Frascolla builds up a...

    Published September 14th 1994 by Routledge