Wittgenstein - Rules, Grammar & Necessity - Vol II of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Essays and Exegesis §§185-242: ... Investigations, Essays and Exegesis 185-242 - Softcover

"The authors showed in the first volume that they had in full measure the combination of scholarship and philosophical excellence needed to expound and illuminate the intricacies of the text. That combination is apparent on every page of the present work." ?Bede Rundle, Philosophical Investigations "This second volume has all the scholarly virtues of its predecessor. It is imbued with massive learning. The exegeses are accurate. The essays usefully distinguish the different threads in Wittgenstein?s discussion; they explicate the most significant of the relevant concepts, and they explain the philosophical importance of the issues involved." ?Malcolm Budd, Philosophical Books

The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein s Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules. * Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following * Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein s conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity * Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass * Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years