This is a collection of the key articles written by renowned
Wittgenstein scholar, G.P. Baker, on Wittgenstein’s later
philosophy, published posthumously.
* * Following Baker’s death in 2002, the volume has been
edited by collaborator and partner, Katherine Morris.
* Contains articles previously only available in other languages,
and one previously unpublished paper.
* Completely distinct from the widely-known work Baker did with
P.M.S. Hacker in the Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical
Investigations (Blackwell Publishing, 1980-1996).
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction by Katherine J. Morris 1
Part I: Reading Wittgenstein 19
A. Methodological Concepts: 21
1. Philosophical Investigations §122: Neglected Aspects
22
2. Some Remarks on ‘Language’ and
‘Grammar’ 52
3. Wittgenstein’s ‘Depth Grammar’ 73
4. Wittgenstein on Metaphysical/Everyday Use 92
B. Applications: the ‘Private Language Argument’:
108
5. The Reception of the Private Language Argument 109
6. Wittgenstein’s Method and the Private Language Argument
119
7. The Private Language Argument (extract) 130
Part II: Wittgenstein and Waismann: 141
A. The Analogy with Psychoanalysis: 143
8. ‘Our’ Method of Thinking about
‘Thinking’ 144
9. A Vision of Philosophy 179
10. Wittgenstein’s Method and Psychoanalysis 205
B. Aspects and Conceptions: 223
11. Italics in Wittgenstein 224
12. Wittgenstein: Concepts or Conceptions? 260
13. The Grammar of Aspects and Aspects of Grammar 279
Bibliography of the Works of Gordon Baker 294
General Bibliography 299
Index 305
Circa l’autore
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 a number of books on Wittgenstein, including the first
two volumes of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the
Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell Publishing 1980-1996),
and with Katherine Morris of Descartes’ Dualism
(1996). He also wrote numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Frege,
Russell, Waismann and Descartes.
Katherine Morris is a Lecturer and Fellow at Mansfield
College, Oxford University. She and G.P. Baker co-authored
Descartes’ Dualism (1996). She has published a number
of articles on Wittgenstein, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Descartes,
and is the author of ‘Sartre’ (forthcoming from
Blackwell Publishing).