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A Companion to Ancient Philosophy Edited by Hans‐Johann Glock and John Hyman Edited by Mary Louise Gill and Pierre Pellegrin A Companion to Wittgenstein Edited by Hans‐Johann Glock and John Hyman This edition first published 2017 © 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Registered Office John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148‐5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley‐blackwell. The right of Hans‐Johann Glock and John Hyman to be identified as the authors of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2016034790 | ISBN 9781118641163 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118641477 (epub) | ISBN 9781118641460 (PDF) Subjects: LCSH: Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889–1951. Classification: LCC B3376.W564 C633 2017 | DDC 192–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016034790 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1930. © The Wittgenstein Archive Set in 10/12pt Photina by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Wittgenstein’s Published Works in Order of Composition xiv Introduction 1 John Hyman and Hans-Johann Glock Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Sketch of His Life 5 Ray Monk Part I Introductory 21 1. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Development 23 Wolfgang Kienzler 2. Wittgenstein’s Texts and Style 41 David G. Stern Part II Influences 57 3. Wittgenstein and Schopenhauer 59 Dale Jacquette 4. Wittgenstein and Frege 74 Michael Beaney 5. Wittgenstein and Russell 92 Graham Stevens 6. Wittgenstein, Hertz, and Boltzmann 110 John M. Preston Part III Early Philosophy 125 7. Logical Atomism 127 Leo K.C. Cheung 8. The Picture Theory 141 Colin Johnston v Contents 9. Wittgenstein on Solipsism 159 Ernst Michael Lange 10. Resolute Readings of the Tractatus 175 James Conant and Silver Bronzo 11. Ineffability and Nonsense in the Tractatus 195 Leo K.C. Cheung 12. Metaphysics: From Ineffability to Normativity 209 P.M.S. Hacker Part IV Philosophy and Grammar 229 13. Philosophy and Philosophical Method 231 Hans-Johann Glock 14. Grammar and Grammatical Statements 252 Severin Schroeder 15. The Autonomy of Grammar 269 Michael N. Forster 16. Surveyability 278 Joachim Schulte Part V Logic and Mathematics 291 17. Logic and the Tractatus 293 Roger M. White 18. Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy of Mathematics 305 Pasquale Frascolla 19. Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy of Mathematics 319 A.W. Moore 20. Wittgenstein and Antirealism 332 Mathieu Marion 21. Necessity and Apriority 346 Eric Loomis Part VI Language 359 22. Names and Ostensive Definitions 361 Kai Büttner 23. Meaning and Understanding 375 Jason Bridges 24. Rules and Rule-Following 390 Gary Ebbs vi Contents 25. Vagueness and Family Resemblance 407 Hanoch Ben-Yami 26. Languages, Language-Games, and Forms of Life 420 Daniel Whiting 27. Wittgenstein on Truth 433 David Dolby Part VII Mind and Action 443 28. Privacy and Private Language 445 Edward Kanterian 29. The Inner and the Outer 465 William Child 30. Wittgenstein on “I” and the Self 478 Maximilian de Gaynesford 31. Wittgenstein on Action and the Will 491 Maria Alvarez 32. Wittgenstein on Intentionality 502 Stefan Brandt 33. Wittgenstein on Seeing Aspects 517 Arif Ahmed 34. Wittgenstein on Color 533 Jonathan Westphal Part VIII Epistemology 545 35. Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Certainty 547 Danièle Moyal-Sharrock 36. Wittgenstein on Skepticism 563 Duncan Pritchard 37. Wittgenstein on Causation and Induction 576 Constantine Sandis and Chon Tejedor 38. Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Science 587 Vasso Kindi Part IX Ethics, Aesthetics, and Religion 603 39. Wittgenstein and Ethics 605 Robert L. Arrington 40. Wittgenstein and Aesthetics 612 Severin Schroeder vii Contents 41. Wittgenstein and Anthropology 627 Brian R. Clack 42. Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion 639 John Cottingham 43. Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis 651 Edward Harcourt Part X Philosophical Schools and Traditions 667 44. Wittgenstein and the Aristotelian Tradition 669 Roger Pouivet 45. Wittgenstein and Kantianism 682 Robert Hanna 46. Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle 699 Thomas Uebel 47. Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language Philosophy 718 Anita Avramides 48. Wittgenstein and Pragmatism 731 David Bakhurst and Cheryl Misak 49. Wittgenstein and Naturalism 746 Christopher Hookway 50. Wittgenstein and Continental Philosophy 757 Stephen Mulhall Index 771 viii List of Contributors Arif Ahmed University of Cambridge Maria Alvarez King’s College London Robert L. Arrington‡ Georgia State University Anita Avramides St Hilda’s College, Oxford David Bakhurst Queen’s University, Kingston Michael Beaney King’s College London and Humboldt University, Berlin Hanoch Ben‐Yami Central European University, Budapest Stefan Brandt Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg Jason Bridges University of Chicago Silver Bronzo Higher School of Economics, Moscow Kai Büttner Independent Scholar Leo K.C. Cheung Chinese University of Hong Kong William Child University College, Oxford ‡Deceased ix