Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. The Dignity of Human Persons: A Conceptual Sketch 1
5. Gustav Bergmann and Italy 13
6. The Concept of Example in Wittgenstein 23
7. Drawing on Carnap, Wittgenstein, and Sellars: Richard Rorty’s Anti-Reductionism and the Values of Norms 37
8. “The Mental Workshop where Language is Produced”: Wilhelm Wundt on Language Psychogenesis 51
9. The Decline of Western Civilizations: Cassandra’s Song 67
10. On Our “Terrorism” Discourse 79
11. Causes, Motives, Reasons and Internal Relations: Wittgenstein vs the Phenomenologists 87
12. A Critique of G.H. von Wright’s ‘Conceptual Triadism’ in His Later Writings on the Philosophy of Mind 99
13. Kant’s World 109
14. Grammatical Refutation of Idealism 119
15. Wittgenstein’s Indexicals 135
16. Wittgenstein’s 1938 Preface Drafts for the Philosophical Investigations: A Synoptic Edition 145
17. Translation: An Invaluable Tool for Contemporary Philosophical Research 159
18. Assumptions: Meinong and the Criticisms of Russell and Marty 171
19. A Plea for a “Semantic Intuition”: Wittgenstein’s Solution to Husserl’s Problem of a “Third Possibility” 183
20. Are Bergmann’s Canons “Literally Nothing”? 197
21. Some Remarks on the Use of Counterexamples in Analytic Epistemology: Propositional Knowledge and Justification 205
22. Wittgenstein, Egidi, and Intentionality 217
23. Selected Bibliography by Rosaria Egidi
24. Index of Names 231