Wittgenstein on Mind and Language

by David G. Stern

Book Overview

Drawing on ten years of research on the unpublished Wittgenstein papers, Stern investigates what motivated Wittgenstein's philosophical writing and casts new light on the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations. The book is an exposition of Wittgenstein's early conception of the nature of representation and how his later revision and criticism of that work led to a radically different way of looking at mind and language. It also explains how the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00JG0AI0C
• ISBN13: 9780195111477
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"