CONTENTS	5
	CONTRIBUTORS	7
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	9
	INTRODUCTION (Alice Crary)	11
	Part I WITTGENSTEIN’S LATER WRITINGS	29
	1 EXCURSUS ON WITTGENSTEIN’S VISION OF LANGUAGE (Stanley Cavell)	31
	Learning a word	32
	Projecting a word	39
	2 NON-COGNITIVISM AND RULE-FOLLOWING (John McDowell)	48
	Notes	60
	3 WITTGENSTEIN ON RULES AND PLATONISM (David H.Finkelstein)	63
	1 Rules and platonism: some preliminary remarks	64
	2 Wright’s “flat-footed response” to Kripke’s skeptic	66
	3 The gulf between an order and its execution	71
	4 Wittgenstein’s response to platonism	76
	Notes	79
	4 WHAT ‘THERE CAN BE NO SUCH THING AS MEANING ANYTHING BY ANY WORD’ COULD POSSIBLY MEAN (Rupert Read)	84
	Notes	90
	5 WITTGENSTEIN ON DECONSTRUCTION (Martin Stone)	93
	Introduction	93
	Part I Deconstruction	95
	Part II Deconstruction in Philosophical Investigations	105
	Part III How to read §201	110
	Conclusion: notes on aligning Wittgenstein and Derrida	118
	Notes	122
	6 WITTGENSTEIN’S PHILOSOPHY IN RELATION TO POLITICAL THOUGHT (Alice Crary)	128
	1 Right-wing Wittgenstein, lefter-wing Wittgenstein	129
	(i) Wittgenstein as a conservative philosopher	131
	(ii) Saving Wittgenstein from conservatism (Richard Rorty)	133
	2 Bringing back “meaning” and “criticism” to their everyday use	140
	(i) Meaning and methods of checking truth	141
	(ii) Solving problems and making progress	142
	(iii) The “contingency” of concepts	144
	3 Conclusion: Wittgenstein’s philosophy in relation to political thought	150
	Notes	151
	Part II THE TRACTATUS AS FORERUNNER OF WITTGENSTEIN’S LATER WRITINGS	157
	7 ETHICS, IMAGINATION AND THE METHOD OF WITTGENSTEIN’S TRACTATUS (Cora Diamond)	159
	Notes	182
	8 ELUCIDATION AND NONSENSE IN FREGE AND EARLY WITTGENSTEIN (James Conant)	184
	1 The neglect of Frege?	186
	2 Frege on concept and object	189
	3 Fregean elucidation	192
	4 Elucidatory nonsense	195
	5 The Tractarian critique of the substantial conception	199
	6 The method of the Tractatus	205
	Notes	208
	9 RETHINKING MATHEMATICAL NECESSITY (Hilary Putnam)	228
	Kant and Frege	229
	Quine on analyticity	230
	It ain’t necessarily so	232
	Some thought experiments in On Certainty	233
	Quine’s philosophy of logic	234
	Kant-Frege-Wittgenstein (again)	235
	A few clarifications	236
	Arithmetic	237
	The existence of mathematical objects	238
	Notes	239
	10 WITTGENSTEIN, MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY (Juliet Floyd)	242
	Notes	265
	11 DOES BISMARCK HAVE A BEETLE IN HIS BOX? The private language argument in the Tractatus (Cora Diamond)	272
	Notes	297
	12 HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WOOD Wittgenstein, Frege and the problem of illogical thought (David R.Cerbone)	303
	1 Introduction	303
	2 Frege’s polemic against psychologism	305
	3 Wittgenstein’s examination of Frege’s polemics	309
	4 Wittgenstein’s quietism	318
	Notes	319
	13 CONCEPTIONS OF NONSENSE IN CARNAP AND WITTGENSTEIN (Edward Witherspoon)	325
	Introduction	325
	1 Carnap and Carnapianism	327
	2 Wittgenstein on nonsense	331
	3 Baker and Hacker: nonsense as a violation of rules of grammar	335
	4 Marie McGinn: Wittgenstein as a framework theorist	343
	5 The Incoherence of Carnapianism	349
	Notes	355
	A DISSENTING VOICE	361
	14 WAS HE TRYING TO WHISTLE IT? (P.M.S.Hacker)	363
	1 ‘A baffling doctrine, bafflingly presented’	363
	2 A post-modernist defence	366
	3 Criticism of the post-modernist interpretation: the Tractatus—internal evidence	370
	(i) Sawing off the branch	371
	(ii) The rationale for the showing/saying distinction	372
	(iii) Diamond on the Tractatus	373
	(iv) The Tractatus—trying to say what can only be shown	378
	(v) The Tractatus criticisms of Frege and Russell	378
	(vi) The Tractatus conception of philosophy	379
	4 The post-modernist interpretation: external criticism	381
	(i) Pre-Tractatus writings	381
	(ii) Letters at the time of the Tractatus	382
	(iii) Discussions with friends	383
	(iv) The Aristotelian Society paper	384
	(v) Lectures and discussions	386
	(vi) The post-1929 manuscript volumes and typescripts	388
	Notes	392
	BIBLIOGRAPHY	399
	Primary sources	399
	Selected secondary sources	400
	INDEX	405