G. P. Baker & P. M. S. Hacker 
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Understanding and Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis §§1-184

This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S.
Hacker’s definitive reference work on Wittgenstein’s
Philosophical Investigations.

* Takes into account much material that was unavailable when the
first edition was written.

* Following Baker’s death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has
thoroughly revised the first volume, rewriting many essays and
sections of exegesis completely.

* Part One – the Essays – now includes two completely
new essays: ‘Meaning and Use’ and ‘The Recantation of a
Metaphysician’.

* Part Two – Exegesis §§1-184 – has
been thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publication
of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, and includes many new
interpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of the
book, and an overview of its structure.

* The revisions will ensure that this remains the definitive
reference work on Wittgenstein’s masterpiece for the
foreseeable future.

Table des matières

Acknowledgements.

Introduction to Part II: Exegesis.

Note to the paperback edition 2009.

Abbreviations.

The history of the composition of the Philosophical
Investigations.

An overview of the structure and argument of the
Philosophical Investigations.

Exegesis.

The Title.

The Motto.

The Preface.

Chapter 1 The Augustinian conception of language
(§§1-27(a)).

Chapter 2 Illusions of naming: ostensive definition, logically
proper names, simples and samples, and analysis
(§§27(b)-64).

Chapter 3 Family resemblance, determinacy of sense, and the
quest for essence (§§65-88).

Chapter 4 Philosophy (§§89-133).

Chapter 5 The general propositional form
(§§134-42).

Chapter 6 Understanding and ability
(§§143-84).

Index.

A propos de l’auteur

G.P.Baker was a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford
from 1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co-author with P.M.S.
Hacker of the first two volumes of the four-volume Analytical
Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell,
1980-96), author of Wittgenstein, Frege and the Vienna
Circle (Blackwell, 1988) and with Katherine Morris of
Descartes’ Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerous
articles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes.

P.M.S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy
of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume Analytical
Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first two
volumes co-authored with G.P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980-96) and
of Wittgenstein’s Place in Twentieth-century Analytic
Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). His other previous works include
The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell,
2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), both co-authored with M.R. Bennett. Most
recently he has published Human Nature: The Categorical
Framework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on
human nature.Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the
4th edition and extensively revised translation of
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
(Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2009).