Table of Contents

1: Wittgenstein -- an Overview
2: Wittgenstein and the Autonomy of Humanistic Understanding
3: Developmental Hypotheses and Perspicuous Representations: Wittgenstein on Frazer's Golden Bough
Postscript
4: Was he Trying to Whistle it?
5: When the Whistling had to Stop
6: Naming, Thinking, and Meaning in the Tractatus
Postscript
7: Frege and the Early Wittgenstein
8: Frege and the Later Wittgenstein
9: co-authored with G. P. Baker: Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: The Exaltation and Deposition of Ostensive Definition
10: co-authored with G. P. Baker: On Misunderstanding Wittgenstein: Kripke's Private Language Argument
11: co-authored with G. P. Baker: Malcolm on Language and Rules
12: On Carnap's Elimination of Metaphysics
13: On Strawson's Rehabilitation of Metaphysics
Index

About the Author

P.M.S. Hacker is Tutor and Fellow of Philosophy at St John's College, Oxford.