G. P. Baker & P. M. S. Hacker 
Wittgenstein [PDF ebook] 
Understanding and Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essays

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.

* * New edition of the first volume of the monumental four-volume
Analytical Commentary on the 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.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Acknowledgements.

Introduction to Part 1 – the Essays.

Abbreviations.

I. THE AUGUSTINIAN CONCEPTION OF LANGUAGE (?1).

II. EXPLANATION (?6).

III. THE LANGUAGE-GAME METHOD (?7).

IV. DESCRIPTIONS AND THE USES OF SENTENCES (?18).

V. OSTENSIVE DEFINITION AND ITS RAMIFICATIONS (?28).

VI. INDEXICALS (?39).

VII. LOGICALLY PROPER NAMES (?39).

VIII. MEANING AND USE (?43).

IX. CONTEXTUAL DICTA AND CONTEXTUAL PRINCIPLES (?50).

X. THE STANDARD METRE (?50).

XI. FAMILY RESEMBLANCE (?65).

XII. PROPER NAMES (?79).

XIII. TURNING THE EXAMINATION AROUND: THE RECANTATION OF A METAPHYSICIAN (?89).

XIV. PHILOSOPHY (?109).

XV. SURVEYABILITY AND SURVEYABLE REPRESENTATIONS (?122).

XVI. TRUTH AND THE GENERAL PROPOSITIONAL FORM (?134).

XVII. UNDERSTANDING AND ABILITY (?143).

INDEX.

Sobre o autor

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), 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). He has also written extensively
on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, most recently
The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell,
2003), co-authored with M.R. Bennett.