The Evolution of the Private Language Argument (Ashgate Wittgensteinian Studies) - Softcover

Nielsen, Keld Stehr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138249475 ISBN 13: 9781138249479

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

The Evolution of the Private Language Argument presents a continuous view of modern analytical philosophy by telling the history of one of its central strands. It is an in-depth history of this well known philosophical argument, the evolution of Wittgenstein's thoughts and its influence on analytical philosophy of mind and language. Nielsen looks at early discussions of the private language argument in the Vienna Circle and the influence of Wittgenstein's ideas and examines the relation between the early and later Wittgenstein on this subject. He discusses which influential versions of the private language argument have been presented in the fifty years since Philosophical Investigations was published and how they relate to Wittgenstein's thoughts, and considers how the role and the interpretation of the argument, and Wittgenstein's philosophy, changed along with changes in the conception of the nature of analytic philosophy.

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About the Author

Keld Stehr Nielsen is from the Institute of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138249475
• ISBN 13: 9781138249479
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220