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Kripke's Wittgenstein

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The book investigates Kripke’s reading of Wittgenstein presented in his eminent book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language(1982). It explores various aspects of Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s view an...
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The present book explores Kripke’s novel reading of Wittgenstein offered in his celebrated book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language(1982), as well as the crucial objections to it from over fifteen philosophers. Having introduced the basic notions on which Kripke’s Wittgenstein builds his sceptical challenge, the book concentrates on different aspects of the “sceptical argument,” which Kripke attributes to Wittgenstein. It then elucidates the sort of “sceptical solution” that Kripke takes Wittgenstein to be offering as an alternative view to classical realism. An investigation of how a similar sceptical problem arises in the case of attributions of sensations, as well as the sort of special problem, which according to Kripke’s Wittgenstein appears in the traditional model of dealing with the problem of other minds, ends the book’s explanation of Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s view. The book then focuses on the chief responses to Kripke’s reading of Wittgenstein offered by those prominent philosophers who have deeply engaged in the topic since the 80s, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Gordon Bake and Peter Hacker, Simon Blackburn, Colin McGinn, Crispin Wright, Paul Boghossian, Scott Soames, Noam Chomsky, Paul Horwich, Hannah Ginsborg, George Wilson, Philip Pettit and Barry Stroud.

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Price: £25.00
Publisher: Anthem Press
Imprint: Anthem Press
Series: Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
Publication Date: 13 January 2026
ISBN: 9781839990168
Format: eBook
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PHILOSOPHY / General, Topics in philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Utilitarianism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy of language

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I. Chapter One. Introduction To Kripke’S Wittgenstein; Ii. Chapter Two. The Sceptical Argument: Introduction; Iii. Chapter Three. The Sceptical Argument: The Candidate Facts; Iv. Chapter Four. The Sceptical Solution; V. Chapter Five. The Problem Of Other Minds; Vi. Chapter Six. Criticisms And Responses; Vii. References And Further Reading.