Wittgenstein on Using Language and Playing Chess: The Breakdown of an Analogy and Its Consequences

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. PART I. THE BOUNDS OF JUDGMENT
4. Introduction: Basic Necessities (or: The Shape of Thought) 3
5. The Search for Logically Alien Thought: Descartes, Kant, Frege, and the Tractatus 27
6. What Descartes Ought to Have Thought about Modality 101
7. Kant on Logic and the Laws of the Understanding 117
8. Cartesian Skepticism, Kantian Skepticism, and Two Conceptions of Self-Consciousness 145
9. Logical Aliens and the “Ground” of Logical Necessity 170
10. Varieties of Alien Thought 183
11. Wittgenstein on Using Language and Playing Chess: The Breakdown of an Analogy and Its Consequences 202
12. Where Words Fail 222
13. Alien Meaning and Alienated Meaning 281
14. PART II. THE LOGICAL ALIEN REVISITED: AFTERTHOUGHTS AND RESPONSES
15. Introduction: On How History of Philosophy Can Be Illuminating 295
16. Section I: Who Is the Author of These Afterthoughts and Responses? 321
17. Section II: A History of Philosophy That Challenges Contemporary Preconceptions 328
18. Section III: Some Aspects of Conant’s Version of the History 363
19. Section IV: Theological Sources of Modern Conceptions of Logic 376
20. Section V: Leibnizian versus Kantian Conceptions of Logic 405
21. Section VI: A Resolute Reading of Descartes 469
22. Section VII: Reply to Moore: Descartes on the Relation of the Possible to the Actual 537
23. Section VIII: Reply to Boyle: Kant on the Relation of a Rational Capacity to Its Acts 574
24. Section IX: Reply to Hamawaki: On the Relation of Cartesian to Kantian Skepticism and the Relation of Consciousness to Self-Consciousness 648
25. Section X: Reply to Hamawaki and Stroud on Transcendental Arguments, Idealism, and the Kantian Solution of the Problem of Philosophy 758
26. Section XI: Reply to Stroud on Kant and Frege: On the Relation of Thought to Judgment 783
27. Section XII: Reply to Sullivan: Frege on the Priority of Logic to Everything 830
28. Section XIII: Reply to Gustafsson: Wittgenstein on the Relation of Sign to Symbol 863
29. Section XIV: Reply to Travis: Wittgenstein on the Non-Relation of Thinking to Being 948
30. Section XV: Reply to Benoist: Wittgenstein on the Relation of Language to Life 984
31. Bibliography 1029
32. Index of names 1051
33. Index of subjects 1057