Language, Mind, and Value

Essays on Wittgenstein

By: Severin Schroeder

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Hardcover | 12 March 2024

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This book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in Wittgenstein's philosophy, divided into three sections. The first section is about philosophy of language, in particular Wittgenstein's key idea of linguistic normativity: his conception of rules and grammatical propositions. The second section is mainly concerned with important Wittgensteinian contributions to the philosophy of mind and action: his analysis of sensation language, the concept of understanding and the explanation of human behaviour by reasons, as opposed to causal explanations. There is also an essay on Wittgenstein's famous discussion of aspect perception, and a critical discussion of the idea of 'hinge propositions' drawn from his remarks in On Certainty. The final section focusses on questions of value, mainly in aesthetics, but also in ethics and religion. In particular, the book gives a detailed account of Wittgenstein's account of aesthetic judgements as based on a 'cultured taste', informed by detailed knowledge of a certain genre of aesthetically interesting objects, a set of conventional rules and a certain consistency. Aesthetics is compared and contrasted with ethics and with psychological investigations. The final essay is on Wittgenstein's distinctive account or religious belief.

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"Severin Schroeder is one of the leading Wittgenstein scholars of his generation. This collection brings together his best essays on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, aesthetics and ethics. They are gems, some of them difficult to access, that substantially advance both our understanding of Wittgenstein's thought and of its topics. Schroeder manages to clarify and defend even highly controversial Wittgensteinian ideas in an exemplary manner. His limpid prose is an ideal medium for his profound scholarship and acute philosophical thought." -Professor Hans-Johann Glock, Department of Philosophy, Universitat Zurich, Switzerland.

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