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Contextual metaphilosophy: the case of Wittgenstein
Gakis, D.
Publication date
2012
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Gakis, D. (2012). Contextual metaphilosophy: the case of Wittgenstein. Institute for Logic,
Language and Computation.
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviated References xiii
Chapter 1
Prolegomena 1
1.1 Introduction: Motives, Structures, Themes, and Goals 2
1.2 Conceptions of (Meta)Philosophy 11
Chapter 2
A Contextual Metaphilosophical Perspective 23
2.1 Kuhn’s Historical Perspective 24
2.2 The Impact of Kuhn’s Work 31
2.3 A Kuhnian Take on Metaphilosophy 45
Chapter 3
Early Wittgenstein in Context: Setting the Background 59
3.1 The Issue of Ethics in Wittgenstein’s Work and Life 60 3.2 The Role of Biographical and Historical Material 63 3.3 Early Wittgenstein on Ethics, Science, and Humanity 67 3.4 Wittgenstein’s Early Life and Thought (1889-1918) 72 3.5 Wittgenstein’s Vienna and Wittgenstein’s Vienna 78 Chapter 4
Early Wittgenstein in Context: Modernism and Modernity 95
4.1 Early Wittgenstein and Modernism 96
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Intermezzo: Throwing Away the Ladder Before Climbing it 139
5.1 Historical Ladders 140
5.2 The Role of the Ladder Metaphor in the New Wittgenstein Debate 143 5.3 Metaphysics, Ethics, and Therapy in the Tractatus 153 5.4 Synopsis: Resolute Readings as (non-)Exegetical Endeavours 170 Chapter 6
Later Wittgenstein in Context: Setting the Background 175
6.1 Wittgenstein’s (Middle and) Later Life and Thought (1918-1951) 176 6.2 Wittgenstein’s Later (Meta)Philosophical Perspective 192 Chapter 7
Later Wittgenstein in Context: The Political Wittgenstein 221
7.1 The Ethical and Political Aspects of Later Wittgenstein’s Perspective 222 7.2 Later Wittgenstein, Marxism, and Marx: Historical Connections 236 7.3 Later Wittgenstein, Marxism, and Marx: Systematic Connections 252 Chapter 8
Epilegomena 281
8.1 Later Wittgenstein, Autonomy, and Progress 282
8.2 Postface 290
Bibliography 295
Samenvatting 317
