Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity: Volume 2 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Essays and Exegesis §§185-242, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-1-4051-8408-3
Hardcover
400 pages
December 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and
Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical
commentary on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical
Investigations) now includes extensively revised and
supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and
controversial remarks on following rules.
- Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following
- Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein’s conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity
- Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass
- Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years