Readings


I. Primary Readings

1. Gottlob Frege 

2. Ludwig Wittgenstein 

3. Silver Bronzo

4. Saul Kripke

5. John McDowell

6. David Finkelstein

7. Rudolph Carnap

8. Matthias Haase 




II. Primary Reading from Later Wittgenstein


1. Sections 85-87 of the PI

2. Sections 89 - 133 of the PI in Anscombe translation in a bilingual edition

3. Sections 89 - 133 of the PI in Hacker/Schulte translation in a bilingual edition

4. Hacker/Schulte revisions of the Anscombe translation of sections 89 - 133 (crossed-out portions: revised sections of the Anscombe translation; highlighted portions: Hacker/Schulte revisions of those sections).

5. Sections 185-242 of the PI in Hacker/Schulte translation in a bilingual edition

6. Hacker/Schulte revisions of the Anscombe translation of sections 185-242 (crossed-out portions: revised sections of the Anscombe translation; pink-highlighted portions: Hacker/Schulte revisions of those sections).

7. Sections 431-433 of the PI. 



III. Two required background readings on Wittgenstein’s understanding of philosophical method


1. James Conant, ‘Wittgenstein's Methods’, in Kuusela and McGinn, eds., Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, pp. 620-45

2. Cora Diamond, 'Criss Cross Philosophy', in Ammereller and Fischer, eds., Wittgenstein at Work, pp. 201-220.

IV. Some discussions of philosophy by Wittgenstein, prior to Philosophical Investigations


1. Wittgenstein - The Philosophy Chapter of the Big Typescript

2. The Blue Book, pp. 16-20, 44-5. (Original language: English.)

3. G.E.Moore - selection from ‘Wittgenstein’s Lectures in 1930-33’, Part II.

4. Desmond Lee, Wittgenstein’s Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1932, pp. 21-22. (Original language: English.)

5. Alice Ambrose, Wittgenstein's Lectures, Cambridge 1932-1935, pp. 13, 27-28, 31, 43

6. Margaret Macdonald, selection from Notes to Wittgenstein’s Lectures on ‘Personal Experience’, Michaelmas, 1935. (Original language: English.)

7. "On Dogmatism" from Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. (English version ; German version)



V. Some useful background readings on Wittgenstein’s overall conception of philosophy


1. Elizabeth Anscombe - 'The Reality of the Past', in Anscombe, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind, pp. 103- 119; originally published in Max Black, ed., Analytic Philosophy.

2. Stanley Cavell - 'The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy' In Must We Mean What We Say?, pp. 44-72; reprinted from Philosophical Review 71 (1962); also in George Pitcher, ed., Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Investigations.

3. Stanley Cavell, Notes and Afterthoughts on the Opening of Wittgenstein's Investigations, In Sluga and Stern, eds., Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, pp. 261-295.

4. Warren Goldfarb, ‘I Want You to Bring Me a Slab: Remarks on the Opening Sections of the Philosophical Investigations', Synthese 56 (1983), pp. 265-82.
5. Goldfarb, ‘Metaphysics and Nonsense’, Journal of Philosophical Research 22 (1997), pp. 57-73.

6. Oskari Kuusela, ‘From Metaphysics and Philosophical Theses to Grammar: Wittgenstein’s Turn’ From Metaphysics and Philosophical Theses to Grammar, in Philosophical Investigations 28 (2005), pp. 95-133.

7. Marie McGinn - ‘Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy of Language and the Idea of “The Single Great Problem"', in Pichler and Säätelä, Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works, pp. 99-132.

8. Joachim Schulte, ‘Wittgenstein's “Method”’, in Haller and Puhl, eds., Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy, pp. 399-410.

9. Peter Hacker- 'Wittgenstein on Grammar, Theses and Dogmatism', in Philosophical Investigations 35 (2012), pp. 1-17.

10. Richard Rorty, "Wittgenstein and the Linguistic Turn"

11. James Conant, "On Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 97 (1997), pp. 195-222

12. James Conant, "Wittgenstein's Later Criticism of the Tractatus"

13. Peter Railton, "A Priori Rules: Wittgenstein on the Normativity of Logic" (Text mode; Scan)



VI. Background reading on §§ 89 - 133

1. Gordon Baker and Peter Hacker, Commentary on §§ 89 - 133, in Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, pp. 451-559.

2. Stephen Mulhall - Philosophy's Hidden Essence: PI 89-133’, Ammereller and Fischer, eds., Wittgenstein at Work,  pp. 63-85.

3. Marie McGinn - Chapter 1, 'Style and Method: Philosophical Investigations 89-133', in McGinn, Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations, pp. 9-32.

4. Gordon Baker ‘Philosophical Investigations §122: Neglected Aspects’, in Baker, Wittgenstein’s Method: Neglected Aspects, pp. 22-51.

5. Simon Glendinning, ‘Wittgenstein’s Apocalyptic Librarian’, in Haller and Puhl, eds., Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy, pp. 71-80.

6. Anthony Kenny, ‘“Philosophy Only States What Everyone Admits”’, in Ammereller and Fischer, eds., Wittgenstein at Work, pp. 173-82.

7. André Maury - ‘Sources of the Remarks in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations’, Synthese 98 (1994), selection from pp. 352-3.

8. Gordon Baker, "Wittgenstein on Metaphysical / Everyday Use", The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 208. (Jul., 2002), pp. 289-302.


VII. Background reading on §§ 185 - 242

1. John McDowell, "Wittgenstein on Following a Rule"

2. David Finkelstein,  "Holism and Animal Minds"

3. Warren Goldfarb, ‘I Want You to Bring Me a Slab: Remarks on the Opening Sections of the Philosophical Investigations', Synthese 56 (1983), pp. 265-82.

4. Ed Minar - "Paradox and Privacy"

5. Saul Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Ch. 3

6. Stanley Cavell, "The Argument of the Ordinary" 

7. Conant, "Varieties of Skepticism"

8. Diamond, "Rules: Looking in the Right Place"


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