This book provides a novel interpretation of the ideas about language in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. Travis places the "private language argument" in the context of wider themes in the Investigations, and thereby develops a picture of what it is for words to bear the meaning they do. He elaborates two versions of a private language argument, and shows the consequences of these for current trends in the philosophical theory of meaning.
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`thorough and wide-ranging explorations ... he is clearly very much in command of his material.' Bede Rundle, Trinity College, Oxford, Mind
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Charles Travis is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois.
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- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on page 1, page 241, and Back Matter
- On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein on page 129, page 151, and Back Matter
- Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein and G.E.M. Anscombe on page 1, and Back Matter
- Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke on page 241, and Back Matter
- Mind, Language and Reality (Philosophical Papers Vol 2, Hilary Putnam ) by Hilary Putnam in Back Matter
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- The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World by Hilary Putnam on 4 pages
- Literal Meaning by François Recanati on page 149, and Back Matter
- Wittgenstein and Quine by Robert Arrington on page 116
- Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy: Neither Theory nor Therapy by Daniel D. Hutto in Back Matter
- Wittgenstein in America by Timothy McCarthy in Back Flap
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