The Philosophy of Wittgenstein Course Guide 2018-19

PHIL10014: The Philosophy of Wittgenstein 2018/19 Course Guide

Course Lecturer: David Levy ([email protected]) Office Location: Dugald Stewart, room 5.10 Office Hour: Tuesday 4:10-5:10pm

Course Secretary: Ann-Marie Cowe ([email protected])

Contents 1. (Course) Aims and Objectives 2. Intended Learning Outcomes 3. Seminar Times and Locations 4. Seminar Content 5. Readings 6. Assessment Information 7. Useful Information

Department of Philosophy School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences University of Edinburgh 1. Course Aims and Objectives

We will consider the philosophical work of Ludwig Wittgenstein in this course, focusing especially on the period from his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to his Philosophical Investigations. Apart from the details of Wittgenstein’s philosophical positions in these two works, we will consider the continuity of his philosophy and his views on ethics.

We will not be discussing any of Wittgenstein’s works after the Philosophical Investigations, including On Certainty nor his several remarks and writings on the philosophy of psychology.

2. Intended Learning Outcomes

- to grasp and analyze central themes in Wittgenstein's philosophy - to identify and articulate problems in the interpretation of Wittgenstein’s work - to assess Wittgenstein's reasons for the views he advocates - to grasp the nature of Wittgenstein's methodology in his work - to relate Wittgenstein's philosophy to that of historical and contemporary philosophers

3. Seminar Times and Locations

Semester 1, Tuesdays 2.10pm – 4pm, David Hume Tower, room 1.20

4. Seminar Content

Requirements You will need to have ready access to the following two texts to participate in the seminars for this course. Each will be abbreviated TLP and PI, respectively.

☞ You should bring a copy to each seminar.

Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (London: Routledge, various editions). N.B. Two translations are available from Routledge, one by Ogden and one by Pears & McGuinness; either will suffice though I prefer Ogden.

Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford; Blackwell, 2009, 4th edition). N.B. I strongly recommend the 4th edition from 2009. The 2001, 3rd edition is problematic. Avoid it, buy a used older edition if you won’t buy the 4th edition.

The schedule for the seminars follows and includes questions for essays and discussion. Seminar-specific reading and supplemental reading for essays are in the Readings section below.

The format for the meetings of this course is a seminar format and it will not be possible for you to succeed in your studies without reading the materials suggested for each seminar.

☞ You should come to each seminar having read at least the materials listed as ‘Sources’ for each week.

☞ A list of general Wittgenstein reading is given at the end of the Readings section.

Regrettably, the behaviour of some obliges me to make the following requests.

☞ Please do not text or send instant messages during class. It is disrespectful. Turn off the ringer of your phone and put the phone away.

☞ Please do not use your laptop computers in class for anything besides making notes or related activity. If I notice that you are using your laptop for something potentially distracting to your neighbours such as Facebook or YouTube, I will ask you to close your laptop. Tweeting is not a related activity no matter how interesting the seminar material. You distract others with these activities, which is not thoughtful.

1. Introduction Sources: No advance reading required.

Discussion: Wittgenstein’s life and work; Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy; logic in the Tractatus; Frege; the Augustinian picture of language; the project of the Tractatus, the picture theory in the Tractatus.

Useful reading: TLP 2.1 - 3.3, 4 - 4.121, 6.53 - 7; PI §§1 - 7.

2. Tractatus Sources: TLP 2-4. See also: http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/tlp/

Discussion: For this seminar, I would like everyone to make notes on the two top levels of comments in TLP from sections 2, 3 and 4, viz. §§ 2, 2.1, 2.2…3, 3.1, 3.2, etc. We are going to read and discuss these central sections in class.

Questions: To what extent, if any, are the pictures of the picture-theory like pictures from a camera? According to Wittgenstein, do we learn the meanings of words? Is his account adequate? What is the result of incorrectly combining signs? Is the result intelligible? What is the difference between a sign and a symbol? Is the distinction clear? What is the role of the proposition in the Tractatus?

3. Ethics and Nonsense Sources: TLP Preface, 5.5ff & 6.4-7; “A Lecture on Ethics” (sources in Reading below) Secondary: Notebooks 1914-16, entries from June 1916 to January 1917.

Questions: Does Wittgenstein believe there is anything of value? [Do not use as essay question.] Why is ethics nonsense according to Wittgenstein? Is he right? To what extent, if any, are logic and value related? Is the whole of the Tractatus really nonsense by Wittgenstein’s lights? Is there a difference between senseless and nonsensical statement? If so, what is it? Was Wittgenstein a solipsist?

4. Analysis and Philosophical Method Sources: TLP 3.2-4.0311, 4.111-4.121, PI 46-64, 89-91, 109-133. Secondary: Philosophical Remarks §§ 1 & 46; Wittgenstein, ‘Philosophy’ (Synthese, 1991; reprinted in Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951, ed. by James Klagge & Alfred Nordmann; Indianapolis; Hackett 1993, Chapter 9).

Questions: Why does Wittgenstein think that sense must be determinate? Is it an objection to TLP that no examples of simple objects are given? Does it make sense to talk about the analysis of a proposition? Is it true that what is known and understood is complex? Is there such a thing as philosophical method? What contrasts are there between psychology and philosophy? Does every method of analysis have an endpoint when the analysis is complete? Must there be an overarching method of analysis applicable to anything?

5. Language-games, Ostensive Definition, Meaning as Use Sources: PI §§ 1-88 Secondary: The Brown Book, §I p. 77 and following to §2.

Questions: What is a language-game? What roles do language-games play? [Do not use for essays.] How do language-games differ from pictures? Are language-games games? To what extent, if any, is language a multiplicity of language-games? Could the builders’ language-game be a complete language? Does ostensive definition connect language with the world? Is meaning identical with use? What are family resemblance concepts?

6. Rule-following I Sources: PI §§ 138-9, 138n, 139n, 143, 145-7, 185-6, 198-202, 206-7, 217-219, 237, 240-242.

During this seminar we will make a close reading of the sections above and consider their meaning. I would like each of you to read the above sections and make a commentary on each.

7. Rule-following II Sources: PI §§ 138-242. Secondary: Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, 3rd ed. (Oxford; Blackwell, 1978), Part VI.

Does Wittgenstein establish that language is rule-governed? Does a rule show me what I should do next? If so, how? In what sense is following a rule a practice? Can Wittgenstein's account of rules explain logical necessity? Can there be socially isolated rule-following? Can there be private rule-following?

8. Private Language I Sources: PI §§ 202, 237, 243-244, 246, 248, 253, 258-9, 265, 270, 272, 291, 293, 296-299, 304.

During this seminar we will make a close reading of the sections above and consider their meaning. I would like each of you to read the above sections and make a commentary on each.

9. Private Language II Sources: PI §§ 237-293 Secondary: Wittgenstein, 'Notes for the Philosophical Lecture,' Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951, (eds) James Klagge & Alfred Nordmann (Indianapolis; Hackett Publishing Co., 1993), Chap 14.

What is a private language supposed to be? Are there any? In what sense are my sensations private? What is the purpose of Wittgenstein’s discussion of a private language? How does the discussion of private language relate to the discussion of rule- following? What role does scepticism about memory play in the discussion of private language? Does Wittgenstein's discussion depend on verificationist principles? Is Wittgenstein’s private language argument about language or sensations?

10. Psychology: Inner and Outer Sources: PI 293, 304-308, 339, 350-362, 376, 398-401, 412, 246-247 & 585-587. Secondary: PI 244-315

What is misleading about the idea we have of the relation between mind and body that leads into philosophical difficulties? Can an argument from criteria refute skepticism about other minds? In what sense, if any, do we have epistemic privacy? Does Wittgenstein deny the existence of 'inner processes'? Is Wittgenstein a behaviourist or a dualist? What is it to describe, rather than avow, a state of mind?

11. Naturalism, Necessity and the Grammar of Forms of Life Sources: PI 490-570 esp. 491-497, Part II.xii (4th ed. PPF §§365-367)

What does Wittgenstein think determines the bounds of sense? What is the difference, if any, between ordinary grammar and logical grammar? What contrasts are there between psychology and philosophy? How do these relate to forms of life? Does language have a goal in the same way as cookery? To what extent, if any, must language track the world?

5. Readings

1. Introduction Background to Logic and Language Morris, Michael, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language, (Cambridge University Press 2006), esp. chapter 15 Lycan, William, Introduction to the Philosophy of Language, 2nd ed., (Routledge, 2008) Textor, Mark, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Frege on Sense and Reference, (Routledge 2009).

Biographical and Philosophical Introductions Janik, A. & Toulmin, S., Wittgenstein's Vienna, various publishers 1973 and 1996 Monk, Ray. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, 1991 Von Wright, G. H. 'A Biographical Sketch,' in Malcolm, Norman. Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.; and Wright, G. H. von. Wittgenstein. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982 Glock, Hans-Johann., ‘Sketch of an Intellectual Biography’, in Glock, Hans- Johann. A Wittgenstein Dictionary (Oxford; Blackwell, 1996). Sluga, Hans, ‘Ludwig Wittgenstein: Life and Work’, Sluga, Hans and Stern, David (eds). The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1996) Hacker, P. M. S. Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (Oxford; Blackwell, 1996) Kenny, Anthony. Wittgenstein (Harmondsworth; Penguin, 1973); chap. 1 Glock, Hans-Johann, ‘The Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy’, in Glock, Hans-Johann. Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 2001) Fann, K. T. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Man and His Philosophy. New York: Dell, 1967 Kanterian, Edward, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Critical Lives, (London: Reaktion Books 2007).

Guidebooks for TLP Any of these below is good. Anscombe’s is dated but goes into the Russell/ Frege background very well. Mounce’s is my favorite, but it can be terse. White’s is tricky but unusually insightful. Nordmann’ and Morris’ are the most recent and reflect recent scholarship. Schroeder’s is helpful in that it is useful for both the Tractatus and the Investigations—but it is somewhat dense. Child’s also covers both well, and the treatment of the Investigations is close to the spirit of my discussion in the course.

White, R. M. Wittgenstein's ‘Tractatus Logico-philosophicus’: A Reader's Guide, (Continuum, 2006) Mounce, H.O., Wittgenstein's Tractatus: An Introduction (University of Chicago Press, 1989) Nordmann, A., Wittgenstein's Tractatus: An Introduction (Cambridge UP, 2005) Anscombe, G.E.M., An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, (St. Augustine’s Press, 2001) and several earlier editions Morris, Michael. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks. London: Routledge, 2008--especially chapters 1 to 4. Schroeder, Severin. Wittgenstein: the way out of the fly-bottle. Cambridge: Polity, 2006. [Covers TLP and PI.] Child, William. Wittgenstein. Routledge 2011. [Covers TLP and PI.]

Further into TLP Hacker, P.M.S., “How The Tractatus Was Meant To Be Read,” Philosophical Quarterly, 65:261, pp. 648-668, 2015. McGuinness, Brian, ‘The Grundgedanke of the Tractatus’, Vesey, Godfrey (ed.). Understanding Wittgenstein. Vol. 7, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures. London: Macmillan, 1974 Ishiguro, Hidé, ‘The So-Called Picture Theory’, in Glock, Hans-Johann. Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 2001) McManus, Denis. The Enchantment of Words: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006 Black, Max. A Companion to Wittgenstein's "Tractatus. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1964 [This is useful for any close reader of the Tractatus as it goes section by section.] Ramsey, Frank, “Critical notice of the Tractatus”, Mind, 32 (1923), 465-78. Block, Irvine. (ed) Perspectives on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein (Blackwell, 1981). Stenius, Erik, Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A critical exposition of its main lines of thought, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1960. Carruthers, Peter, The Metaphysics of the Tractatus, Cambridge UP, 1990. Conant, J. “The Method of the Tractatus” in Reck, E. (ed.) From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic Philosphy (Oxford: OUP 2001).

Guidebooks for PI Schroeder, Severin. Wittgenstein: the way out of the fly-bottle. Cambridge: Polity, 2006. [Covers TLP and PI.] Child, William. Wittgenstein. Routledge 2011. [Covers TLP and PI.] McGinn, M. Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge, 1997). Stern, D. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction (CUP, 2004). Ahmed, A. Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations” (Continuum, 2010). Brenner, William H. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (SUNY, 1999). Lugg, A. Wittgenstein’s Investigations 1-133 (Routledge, 2000). Hacker, P. M. S. and G. Baker, An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Oxford; Blackwell, 1980-1996; second editions too), four vols. [This is overkill as a guidebook and should probably only be consulted for essays.] Ahmed, Arif (ed.), Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2010).

2. Tractatus As for the previous seminar #1, especially the two subsections on TLP. Essays in this area will need to use resources from ‘Further into TLP’ above and probably at least one guidebook that covers TLP.

3. Ethics and Nonsense Wittgenstein’s Writing on or about ethics ☞ Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Lecture on Ethics. Edited by Levy, D., Zamuner, E. and E. V. DiLascio. Blackwell, 2014. The most up to date version of the Lecture on Ethics, includes my introduction to the lecture and Wittgenstein’s view of ethics. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Lecture on Ethics: Introduction, Interpretation and Complete Text. Edited by Levy, D., Zamuner, E. and E. V. DiLascio. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2007. Contains 25,000 words of introductions and exposition. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. “A Lecture on Ethics.” The Philosophical Review 74, no. 1 (1965): 3-12. (Available on JSTOR) Reprinted in Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951. James C. Klagge and Alfred Nordmann (eds.). Indianapolis, Ind.: Cambridge: Hackett, 1993.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Culture and Value: A Selection From the Posthumous Remains. Translated by Peter Winch. Edited by G. H. von Wright, Heikki Nyman, and Alois Pichler. Rev. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Notebooks, 1914-1916. Edited by G. H. von Wright, and G. E. M Anscombe. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1979. Engelmann, Paul. Letters From Ludwig Wittgenstein: With a Memoir. Translated by L. Furtmüller. Edited by Brian McGuinness. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967.

Commentary on the application of Wittgenstein to ethics Diamond, Cora. “Ethics, Imagination and the Method of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.” In Bilder Der Philosophie: Reflexionen Über Das Bildliche Und Die Phantasie. R. Heinrich and H. Vetter (eds.), pp. 55-90. Vienna, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1991. Reprinted in Read, Rupert and Alice Crary (eds.). The New Wittgenstein. London: Routledge, 2000. Redpath, Theodore. “Wittgenstein and Ethics.” In Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy and Language, edited by Alice Ambrose and Morris Lazerowitz, pp. 95-119. London; New York: Allen & Unwin, 1972. Rhees, Rush. “Some Developments in Wittgenstein’s View of Ethics.” The Philosophical Review 74, no. 1 (1965): 17-26. Conant, J. “What ‘Ethics’ in the Tractatus is Not,” in Phillips, D.Z. and M. von der Ruhr (eds), Religion and Wittgenstein’s Legacy (London: Ashgate 2005). Winch, P. “Wittgenstein’s Treatment of the Will,” in his Ethics and Action, (London: Routledge 1971). Griffiths, A. Phillips, ‘Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, and Ethics’, Vesey, Godfrey (ed.). Understanding Wittgenstein. Vol. 7, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures. London: Macmillan, 1974. Levy, D.K., “Wittgenstein’s Early Writing on Ethics” in Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Lecture on Ethics: Introduction, Interpretation and Complete Text. Edited by Levy, D., Zamuner, E. and E. V. DiLascio. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2007 Levy, D.K., “Morality without Agency” in Levy, David, and Edoardo Zamuner. Wittgenstein's Enduring Arguments. London: Routledge, 2008. Edwards, James C. Ethics Without Philosophy: Wittgenstein and the Moral Life. Tampa: University Presses of Florida, 1985. Shields, Philip R. Logic and Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Tilghman, B R. Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics: The View From Eternity. Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991. Stokhof, Martin. World and Life as One: Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein’s Early Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Crary, Alice, ed. Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond. Representation and Mind. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: MIT Press, 2007. Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel. Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein for Social and Political Thought. Berkeley; London: University of California Press, 1972 Tanesini, Alessandra. Wittgenstein: A Feminist Interpretation. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2004

Articles about nonsense in TLP Mounce, H. O. “Philosophy, Solipsism and Thought.” The Philosophical Quarterly 47, no. 186 (1997): 1-18. Kremer, M. “To What Extent is Solipsism a Truth?” in Barry Stocker (ed.), Post-Analytic Tractatus (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). Conant, J. “Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and Nonsense” in Ted Cohen, Paul Guyer and Hilary Putnam (eds.) Pursuits of Reason (Texas Tech University Press 1992). Floyd, J. “The Uncaptive Eye: Solipsism in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus” in Leroy S. Rouner (ed.) Loneliness (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Religion 1998). Kremer, M. “The Purpose of Tractarian Nonsense,” Nous 2001. Conant, J. “The Method of the Tractatus” in Reck, E. (ed.) From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic Philosphy (Oxford: OUP 2001).

4. Analysis and Philosophical Method Morris, Michael, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language, (Cambridge University Press 2006), chapters 2 and 3. Rhees, Rush, ‘“The philosophy of Wittgenstein”’ in Discussions of Wittgenstein, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970). Winch, Peter, ‘Introduction: The Unity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy’ in Studies in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, ed. P. Winch (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969). Anscombe, G.E.M., An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, (St. Augustine’s Press, 2001) and several earlier editions. Cavell, Stanley, 'The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy,' in Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say? (Cambridge University Press, 1976). Fogelin, Robert ‘Wittgenstein’s Critique of Philosophy’ in Sluga, Hans and Stern, David (eds). The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1996) Mounce, H.O., ‘The Logical System of the Tractatus,’ in Glock, Hans-Johann. Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 2001) McGinn, Marie, chapter 1 in Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge, 1997). Brockhaus, Richard, chapters 1 and 4 in Pulling up The Ladder (Open Court Publishing, 1991). Waismann, F., chapters 1, 2 and 19 in The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy, 2nd ed., ed. R. Harré (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995). Hacker, P. M. S., ‘Philosophy’, in Glock, Hans-Johann. Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 2001)

5. Language-games, Ostensive Definition, Meaning as Use Introductions to these topics Stern, D. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction (CUP, 2004), chapter 4. Child, William. Wittgenstein. Routledge 2011, chapter 4. Brenner, William H. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (SUNY, 1999), pp. 9-32 Hacker, P. M. S. & (G. Baker), An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Oxford; Blackwell, 1980-1996; new editions published recently), four vols., Vol 1, Chaps. 2 & 3 Hanfling, Oswald. Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy (London; MacMillan, 1989), chaps, 3 & 6 Lugg, A. Wittgenstein’s Investigations 1-133 (Routledge, 2000), pp. 8-90 Kenny, Anthony. Wittgenstein (Harmondsworth; Penguin, 1973), chap. 9. Luntley, Michael. Wittgenstein: Meaning and Judgement (Blackwell, 2003), chap. 3 McGinn, Marie. Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge, 1997), Chap. 2 Schulte, Joachim. Wittgenstein: An Introduction (SUNY, 1992) chap. 4 Wilson, Brendan. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Edinburgh University Press, 1998), pp. 45-56 Rundle, Bede. Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Language (Oxford; Blackwell, 1990), Chaps.1-3. Cavell, Stanley, ‘Excursus on Wittgenstein’s Vision of Language’, The Claim of Reason, pp. Chap. 7; reprinted in Crary, Alice & Read, Rupert, eds., The New Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2000)

Articles Goldfarb, W. 'I Want You To Bring Me a Slab...' Synthese, 1983. Rhees, Rush. 'Wittgenstein's Builders,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1959-60; reprinted in Rhees, Discussions of Wittgenstein (London; Routledge, 1970). Williams, M. 'The Philosophical Significance of Learning in the Later Wittgenstein', in Wittgenstein, Meaning and Mind (Routledge, 1999), Chap. 7; originally, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1994. Bouwsma, O. K. “The Blue Book.” Journal of Philosophy 58(6), no. 6 (1961): 141-62. Reprinted in Bouwsma, OK. Philosophical Essays. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1965.

6. Rule-following I

7. Rule-following II Wright, C. and A. Miller (eds.), Rule-Following and Meaning, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. [This has many articles on the topic that were published elsewhere.] Kusch, Martin, A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules: Defending Kripke's Wittgenstein, London: Acumen, 2006. Dromm, Keith, Wittgenstein on Rules and Nature, Continuum, 2008. Glock, Hans-Johann. Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader, chapter 6. Baker, Gordon, ‘Following Wittgenstein: Some Signposts for PI Sec 143-242’ in Holtzmann & Leich, eds., Wittgenstein: To Follow a Rule (Routledge, 1981). Budd, Malcolm. 'Wittgenstein on Meaning, Interpretation and Rules,' Synthese 1984; see also Budd, Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology (London; Routledge, 1989), Chap. 2. Finkelstein, D., ‘Wittgenstein on Rules and Platonism’ in Crary & Read, eds., pp. 53-73. Hanfling, O., ‘Does Language Need Rules?’, Philosophical Quarterly, 1980. McGinn, Colin. Wittgenstein on Meaning (Oxford; Blackwell, 1984), Chaps. 1-4. McDowell, John. 'Meaning and Intentionality in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy' in French; reprinted in McDowell, Mind Value and Reality, Chap. 12. Williams, M. 'Rules, Community and Individual,' in Wittgenstein, Meaning and Mind (Routledge, 1999), Chap. 6; originally in Klaus Puhl, ed., Meaning- Scepticism Kripke, Saul. Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (Oxford; Blackwell, 1992); see also Block, pp. 238-312. Bloor, David. Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions (London; Routledge, 1997). Boghossian, P. A. 'The Rule-Following Considerations,' Mind 1989. McDowell, John. 'Wittgenstein on Following a Rule,' Synthese 1984; reprinted in McDowell, Mind Value and Reality (Harvard U.P., 1998), Chap. 11. Malcolm, Norman. Nothing is Hidden, Chap. 9. Winch, P. ‘Facts and Super-Facts’, Philosophical Quarterly 1983; reprinted in Winch, Trying to Make Sense, Chap. 5. Wright, C. 'Review of McGinn, Wittgenstein on Meaning,' Mind 1989, pp. 289-305. Whiting, Daniel, "Is Meaning Fraught with Ought", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2009), pp. 535-55 Whiting, Daniel, "The normativity of meaning defended", Analysis 67.2 (2007): 133-40. Glüer-Pagin, K. and A. Wikforss, "Against Content Normativity", Mind 118 (2009): 31-70. Hattiangadi, A. Oughts and Thoughts: Rule-Following and the Normativity of Meaning, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pettit, P. "The Reality of Rule-Following," in Rules, Reasons, and Norms, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Miller, A. “Blind Rule-Following And The ‘Antinomy Of Pure Reason’,” Philosophical Quarterly 65:260: 396-416, 2015. 8. Private Language I

9. Private Language II Ayer, A. J. & Rhees, Rush. 'Can There Be a Private Language?' Proc. Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol., 1954 and Rhees, Discussions of Wittgenstein, Chap. 5. Budd, Malcolm. 'Wittgenstein on Sensuous Experiences,' Philosophical Quartely, 1986; see also Budd, Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology (London; Routledge, 1989), Chap. 3. Candlish, S. 'The Real Private Language Argument,' Philosophy, 1980. McDowell, John. 'One Strand in the Private Language Argument,' in McDowell, Mind Value and Reality (Harvard U.P., 1998), Chap. 13. Williams, M. 'Wittgenstein on Representations, Privileged Objects and Private Languages,' in Wittgenstein, Meaning and Mind (Routledge, 1999), Chap. 1; originally, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1983. Wright, C. 'Does PI 258-60 suggest a cogent argument against private language?' in P. Petit and J. McDowell , eds., Subject, Thought and Context (Oxford; OUP, 1986). Reprinted in Wright, C., Rails to Infinity, Harvard University Press, 2001 along with ‘Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy of Mind.’ Grandy, R. ‘The Private Language Argument.’ Mind, New Series, Vol. 85, No. 338 (Apr., 1976), pp. 246-250. Goldstein, I. ‘Ontology, Epistemology, and Private Ostensive Definition.’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56, No. 1 (March 1996), pp. 137-147. Canfield, J. ‘Private Language: Philosophical Investigations section 258 and environs.’ In Arrington and Glock, eds. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: Text and Context (London:Routledge). Mulhall, S. Wittgenstein's private language: grammar, nonsense and imagination in Philosophical Investigations , §§ 243-315, Oxford University Press 2007. Most guidebooks have a chapter on the private language argument.

10. Psychology: Inner and Outer Descartes, Meditations V [for contrast] ter Hark, M. ‘The Inner and the Outer’ in Glock, Wittgenstein: a critical reader (Blackwell, 2001). Wittgenstein, L., Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology: The Inner and the Outer, 1949 - 1951, volume 2, Blackwell, 1993. [This was published much later and, while very rich, it is rough and much ignored in secondary commentary.]

Cook, John. 'Human Beings,' in Winch, P. (ed) Studies in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein (London; Routledge, 1969). Johnston, Paul. Wittgenstein, Rethinking the Inner (Routledge, 1993), Chap. 1. Malcolm, N. Nothing is Hidden, Chap 8. Williams, M. 'Wittgenstein's Rejection of Scientific Psychology,' in Wittgenstein, Meaning and Mind (Routledge, 1999), Chap. 9. Winch, Peter. 'Eine Einstellung zur Seele,' P.A.S., 1980-81; reprinted in Winch, Trying to Make Sense, Blackwell 1987, chap. 10. Wright, C. 'Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mind,' Journal of Philosophy 1989. Reprinted in Wright, C., Rails to Infinity, Harvard University Press, 2001. ter Hark, M. Beyond the Inner and the Outer, Kluwer Academic Press, 1990. Schulte, J. Experience and Expression: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology, Oxford University Press 1993.

11. Naturalism, Necessity and the Grammar of Forms of Life Schroeder, pp. 151-168. Stern and Sluga, chapters 6, 11 and 12. Glock (Reader), chapter 14. Hacker, P. An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, vol 4. part I, chapter 3 and part II. Forster, M. Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press, 2004. Finch, H. Wittgenstein—the later philosophy: An exposition of the Philosophical investigations, Humanities Press, 1977, chapter 10. Rhees, R. Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse, Blackwell, two editions, 1998 and 2006. Canfield, J. Wittgenstein: Language and World, University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. Pears, D. Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2006, chapter 3.

Secondary Reading List The following items are additional resources on which you can draw in your studies. This reading list is by no means exhaustive of philosophical literature on Wittgenstein.

General Commentaries on Wittgenstein's Philosophy Fogelin, R. F. Wittgenstein (London; Routledge, 1987). Glock, Hans-Johann. A Wittgenstein Dictionary (Oxford; Blackwell, 1996). Grayling, A. C. Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2001). Hacker, P. M. S. Insight and Illusion, Rev. ed., (Oxford; OUP, 1986). Hacker, P. M. S. Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (Oxford; Blackwell, 1996). Hanfling, Oswald. Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy (London; MacMillan, 1989). Kenny, Anthony. Wittgenstein (Harmondsworth; Penguin, 1973). Luntley, Michael. Wittgenstein: Meaning and Judgement (Blackwell, 2003). Pears, David. The False Prison (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1987), 2 vols.

Collections of Essays Block, Irvine. (ed) Perspectives on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein (Blackwell, 1981). French, P., et. al., (eds) The Wittgenstein Legacy. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVII (Notre Dame, Indiana; University of Notre Dame Press, 1992). Glock, Hans-Johann. Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 2001). Pitcher, George (ed). Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Investigations (New York; Doubleday, 1966). Sluga, Hans & Stern, David (eds). The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1996). Vesey, G. (ed.,) Understanding Wittgenstein, RIP Lectures 1972/3 (Macmillan, 1974)

6. Assessment Information

Exam This course will be assessed solely on the basis of an exam given in the December diet of examinations. Students who qualify (usually fourth year single honours philosophy students) may be obliged to submit a coursework dissertation instead of sitting the exam. The title of your coursework dissertation must be approved in advance by submitting it to me in person or by email. After your title is approved you will complete a form confirming this title and submit it to the departmental office. Generally, any question listed for discussion in a seminar is a suitable short dissertation title.

Formative Exam In addition, everyone should submit up to two exam answers from last year’s exam--available from the Library online. These can be e-mailed to me at any point during the term. This “formative exam” will not count toward determining your mark for this class or the class of degree you are ultimately awarded. However the formative exam is an excellent opportunity to improve your philosophical writing and try arguments you may ultimately use in the exam or short dissertation. I strongly urge you to submit two formative exam essays. If you submit your essays by the end of teaching week 9, I will return them to you in class in teaching week 11. If you submit the essay by the end of teaching week 11, I will return the essay to you via the philosophy office in week 1 of the second term.

MSc Assessment MSc students are assessed by a single essay of 2500 words that must be submitted to the postgraduate teaching office in December at the same time as other MSc Essays. Please check with the postgraduate teaching office for precise details. Generally, any question listed for discussion in a seminar is a suitable essay question.

Feedback will be provided within 3 weeks, unless otherwise notified by email. 7. Useful Information

Contacts You may contact me by email at [email protected]. My office is in room 5.10 of the Dugald Stewart Building. I am available Tuesday of each week from 4.10 until 5.10pm to discuss more or less any philosophical topic, related to this course or not. To ensure that I can see you, I ask that you send me an email confirming that you intend to visit and advising me of the topic for discussion. Unfortunately, I am not often available at other times, though you can seek a special arrangement to meet if it proves necessary.

Feedback You will receive feedback on your work in this class in the following ways. First, you can see me during my office hour to talk about class material, your own contributions to class discussions or essays in progress. Second, I will mark your formative exam and provide comments on how you can improve your essay—in technique and content—in advance of the exam. Third, you will get some feedback on your exam essays. Fourth, you can email me with specific questions about your work in progress or our discussions during the seminars.