Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy Essays for P. M. S. Hacker

Peter Hacker is one of the most notable interpreters of Wittgenstein's work, a powerful and sophisticated exponent of Wittgensteinian ideas, and a distinguished historian of the analytic tradition. Thirteen leading philosophers and Wittgenstein scholars offer specially written essays in honourof Hacker. Their contributions deal with a variety of themes associated with Wittgenstein. Some deal with issues of Wittgenstein scholarship and interpretation, including areas that have attracted an increasing amount of attention, such as ethics and religion. Others deal with central topics fromthe history of analytic philosophy. Finally there are essays that explore and assess Wittgensteinian ideas, in some cases as developed by Hacker, in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, or in related areas such as the philosophy of action and the philosophy of neuroscience.

Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Until 2006, he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading (UK). He has held research fellowships at St. John's College, Oxford, Bielefeld University, and Rhodes University, South Africa. John Hyman is a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and Editor of The British Journal of Aesthetics. He was a Getty Scholar in 2001-2002, a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2002-2003, and Chairman of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford in 2003-2005.