Wittgenstein Meaning and Judgement

In this important study, Michael Luntley offers a compelling reading of Wittgenstein's account of meaning and intentionality, based upon a unifying theme in the early and later philosophies. Rejecting readings which see a complete break between the Philosophical Investigations and the Tractatus, as well as views of Wittgenstein's mature work which either lament or champion his anti-philosophical 'quietism', Luntley argues that Wittgenstein's abiding concern was to show that the conditions for the possibility of intentionality consist not in a body of theoretical knowledge, but in perceptual knowledge, in our active capacity to 'see things aright'.

Michael Luntley is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His previous publications include Language, Logic and Experience (1988), Reason, Truth and Self (1995) and Contemporary Philosophy of Thought (Blackwell, 1999).

Preface

vii

Abbreviations

ix

1 Wittgenstein's Master Argument

1

(20)

1.1 Introduction

1

(1)

1.2 Animating Signs

2

(7)

1.3 The Platonist Source of Grammar

9

(2)

1.4 The Cartesian Source of Grammar

11

(4)

1.5 The Community Source of Grammar

15

(1)

1.6 The Negative and Positive Phases - First Statement

16

(5)

2 Realism, Language and Self

21

(27)

2.1 Introduction

21

(1)

2.2 Logic Takes Care of Itself

22

(5)

2.3 The Need for Grammar

27

(7)

2.4 The Metaphysical Options

34

(8)

2.5 The Self

42

(6)

3 This is How We Play the Game

48

(45)

3.1 Introduction

48

(2)

3.2 Two Kinds of 'Hidden'

50

(8)

3.3 Meaning and Use

58

(6)

3.4 Use and Self

64

(3)

3.5 Use and Augustine's Mistake

67

(4)

3.6 Is 'Slab!' a Shortening of 'Bring Me a Slab!' or is the Latter a Lengthening of the Former?

71

(6)

3.7 This and Similar Things are called 'Games'

77

(6)

3.8 Spontaneity in Particular Circumstances

83

(10)

4 Rules and Other People

93

(31)

4.1 Introduction

93

(1)

4.2 The Structure of an Argument

94

(6)

4.3 The Bipartite Account of Meaning

100

(5)

4.4 Practice

105

(10)

4.5 What You See/Hear is not Normless

115

(4)

4.6 Seeing the Similarity in Particular Cases

119

(5)

5 Putting Your Self in the Picture

124

(28)

5.1 Introduction

124

(1)

5.2 The Standard Treatments

124

(4)

5.3 What's Special about Sensations?

128

(5)

5.4 The Need for Calibration

133

(4)

5.5 Calibration in Subjectivity

137

(5)

5.6 Agreement in Forms of Life

142

(4)

5.7 'Inner' Life Out There

146

(2)

5.8 Now I Understand

148

(4)

6 Seeing Things Aright

152

(25)

6.1 Introduction

152

(3)

6.2 Two Uses of the Word 'See'

155

(10)

6.3 See What I Mean

165

(3)

6.4 Paying Attention

168

(2)

6.5 The Place of Judgement

170

(3)

6.6 What Comes Natural

173

(4)

Bibliography

177

(5)

Index

182

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