Cahill / Raleigh Wittgenstein and Naturalism

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-30157-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 348 Seiten

Reihe: Wittgenstein's Thought and Legacy

Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality. He also developed innovative views about the status and methodology of philosophy and was explicitly opposed to crudely "scientistic" worldviews. His later thought has thus often been understood as elaborating a nuanced form of naturalism appealing to such notions as "form of life", "primitive reactions", "natural history", "general facts of nature" and "common behaviour of mankind". And yet, Wittgenstein is strangely absent from much of the contemporary literature on naturalism and naturalising projects.

This is the first collection of essays to focus explicitly on the relationship between Wittgenstein and naturalism. The volume is divided into four sections, each of which addresses a different aspect of naturalism and its relation to Wittgenstein's thought. The first section considers how naturalism could or should be understood. The second section deals with some of the main problematic domains—consciousness, meaning, mathematics—that philosophers have typically sought to naturalise. The third section explores ways in which the conceptual nature of human life might be continuous in important respects with animals. The final section is concerned with the naturalistic status and methodology of philosophy itself. This book thus casts a fresh light on many classical philosophical issues and brings Wittgensteinian ideas to bear on a number of current debates-for example experimental philosophy, neo-pragmatism and animal cognition/ethics-in which naturalism is playing a central role.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cahill, Kevin M.

Raleigh, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Kevin Cahill and Thomas Raleigh

Part I: Varieties of Naturalism

1. A Defence of Wittgenstein’s Naturalism Paul Snowdon

2. Wittgenstein, Anti-Scientism, and Liberal Naturalism David Macarthur

3. How Relaxed Should Naturalists Be? Dan Hutto and Glenda Satne

Part II: Naturalism about Self, Truth, and Mathematics

4. Sensations, Natural Properties, and the Private Language Argument Bill Child

5. Wittgenstein, Self-Knowledge, and Nature Annalisa Coliva

6. April in Pittsburgh (All About Wirklichkeit) Charles Travis

7. Number Games: Later Wittgenstein’s Naturalistic Descriptivism about Mathematics Sorin Bangu

Part III: Naturalising Animal Minds and Human Psychology

8. Minding the Gap: In Defence of Mind-Mind Continuity Dorit Bar-On

9. Rational Animals Julia Tanney

10. Modes of a "Complicated Form of Life": Expression and Human-Animal Continuity Stina Bäckström

Part IV: Naturalism and Metaphilosophy

11. Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Experience Benedict Smith

12. Wittgensteinian "Therapy", Experimental Philosophy, and Metaphilosophical Naturalism Eugen Fischer

13. Representationalism, Metaphysics and Naturalism: Price versus Horwich Jonathan Knowles

14. Do Pragmatic Naturalists Have Souls? And Should Anyone be Paid to Worry About It? Bjørn Ramberg

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin M. Cahill is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. He works mainly on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. His publications include The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity (2011).

Thomas Raleigh is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Ruhr-University, Bochum. His research is primarily in Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology with particular interest in the work of Wittgenstein. As well as the present volume, he is also the co-editor, together with Jonathan Knowles, of Acquaintance: New Essays (forthcoming).