Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity

The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) now includes greatly expanded coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules.Includes extensively rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the NachlassReflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years

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 recent 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 Categorial Framework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature. Together with Joachim Schulte, he has produced the 4^th edition and extensively revised translation of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Acknowledgements
Introduction to Volume 2
Abbreviations
Analyticalcommentary
Two fruits upon one tree
The continuation of the Early Draft into philosophy of mathematics
Hidden isomorphism
A common methodology
The atness of philosophical grammar
Followinga Rule 185-242
Introduction to the exegesis
Rules and grammar
The Tractatusand rules of logical syntax
From logical syntax to philosophical grammar
Rules and rule-formulations
Philosophy and grammar
The scope of grammar
Some morals Exegesis 185-8
Accord with a rule
Initial compass bearings
Accord and the harmony between language and reality
Rules of inference and logical machinery
Formulations and explanations of rules by examples
Interpretations, tting and grammar
Further misunderstandings Exegesis 189-202
Following rules, mastery of techniques, and practices
Following a rule
Practices and techniques
Doing the right thing and doing the same thing
Privacy and the community view
On not digging below bedrock
Private linguists and 'private linguists' - Robinson Crusoe sails again
Is a language necessarily shared with a community of speakers?
Innate knowledge of a language
Robinson Crusoe sails again
Solitary cavemen and monologuists
Private languages and 'private languages'
Overview Exegesis 203-37
Agreement in definitions, judgements and forms of life
The scaffolding of facts
The role of our nature
Forms of life
Agreement: consensus of human beings and their actions Exegesis 238-42
Grammar and necessity
Setting the stage
Leitmotifs
External guidelines
Necessary propositions and norms of representation
Concerning the truth and falsehood of necessary propositions
What necessary truths are about
Illusions of correspondence: ideal objects, kinds of reality and ultra-physics
The psychology and epistemology of the a priori
Knowledge
Belief
Certainty
Surprise
Discoveries and conjectures
Compulsion
Propositions of logic and laws of thought
Alternative forms of representation
The arbitrariness of grammar
A kinship to the non-arbitrary
Proof in mathematics
Conventionalism
Index
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Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity Volume 2 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Essays and Exegesis 185-242

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