Readings

Course Description

Schedule and Reading list of the Summer School

Cora Diamond's Discussion Notes

Texts

I. Primary Reading

1. Sections 89 - 133 of the Anscombe translation in a bilingual edition

2. Sections 89 - 133 of the Hacker/Schulte translation in a bilingual edition

3. Hacker/Schulte revisions of the Anscombe translation of sections 89 - 133 (crossed-out portions: revised sections of the Anscombe translation; green-highlighted portions: Hacker/Schulte revisions of those sections).

II. Some discussions of philosophy by Wittgenstein, prior to Philosophical Investigations

1. Wittgenstein - The Philosophy Chapter of the Big Typescript

2. The Blue Book, pp. 16-20, 44-5. (Original language: English.)

3. G.E.Moore - selection from ‘Wittgenstein’s Lectures in 1930-33’, Part II.

4. Desmond Lee, Wittgenstein’s Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1932, pp. 21-22. (Original language: English.)

5. Alice Ambrose, Wittgenstein's Lectures, Cambridge 1932-1935, pp. 13, 27-28, 31, 43

6. Margaret Macdonald, selection from Notes to Wittgenstein’s Lectures on ‘Personal Experience’, Michaelmas, 1935. (Original language: English.)

7. "On Dogmatism" from Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. (English version ; German version)

III. Two required background readings on Wittgenstein’s understanding of philosophical method

1. James Conant, ‘Wittgenstein's Methods’, in Kuusela and McGinn, eds., Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, pp. 620-45
2. Cora Diamond, 'Criss Cross Philosophy', in Ammereller and Fischer, eds., Wittgenstein at Work, pp. 201-220.

IV. Some useful background readings on Wittgenstein’s overall conception of philosophy

1. Elizabeth Anscombe - 'The Reality of the Past', in Anscombe, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind, pp. 103- 119; originally published in Max Black, ed., Analytic Philosophy.
2. Stanley Cavell - 'The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy' In Must We Mean What We Say?, pp. 44-72; reprinted from Philosophical Review 71 (1962); also in George Pitcher, ed., Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Investigations.
3. Stanley Cavell, Notes and Afterthoughts on the Opening of Wittgenstein's Investigations, In Sluga and Stern, eds., Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, pp. 261-295.
4. Warren Goldfarb, ‘I Want You to Bring Me a Slab: Remarks on the Opening Sections of the Philosophical Investigations', Synthese 56 (1983), pp. 265-82.
5. Goldfarb, ‘Metaphysics and Nonsense’, Journal of Philosophical Research 22 (1997), pp. 57-73.
6. Oskari Kuusela, ‘From Metaphysics and Philosophical Theses to Grammar: Wittgenstein’s Turn’ From Metaphysics and Philosophical Theses to Grammar, in Philosophical Investigations 28 (2005), pp. 95-133.
7. Marie McGinn - ‘Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy of Language and the Idea of “The Single Great Problem"', in Pichler and Säätelä, Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works, pp. 99-132.
8. Joachim Schulte, ‘Wittgenstein's “Method”’, in Haller and Puhl, eds., Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy, pp. 399-410.
9. Peter Hacker- 'Wittgenstein on Grammar, Theses and Dogmatism', in Philosophical Investigations 35 (2012), pp. 1-17.
10. Richard Rorty, "Wittgenstein and the Linguistic Turn"
11. James Conant, "On Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 97 (1997), pp. 195-222
12. James Conant, "Wittgenstein's Later Criticism of the Tractatus"
13. Peter Railton, "A Priori Rules: Wittgenstein on the Normativity of Logic" (Text mode; Scan)

V. Background reading on §§ 89 - 133

1. Gordon Baker and Peter Hacker, Commentary on §§ 89 - 133, in Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, pp. 451-559.
2. Stephen Mulhall - Philosophy's Hidden Essence: PI 89-133’, Ammereller and Fischer, eds., Wittgenstein at Work,  pp. 63-85.
3. Marie McGinn - Chapter 1, 'Style and Method: Philosophical Investigations 89-133', in McGinn, Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations, pp. 9-32.
4. Gordon Baker ‘Philosophical Investigations §122: Neglected Aspects’, in Baker, Wittgenstein’s Method: Neglected Aspects, pp. 22-51.
5. Simon Glendinning, ‘Wittgenstein’s Apocalyptic Librarian’, in Haller and Puhl, eds., Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy, pp. 71-80.
6. Anthony Kenny, ‘“Philosophy Only States What Everyone Admits”’, in Ammereller and Fischer, eds., Wittgenstein at Work, pp. 173-82.
7. André Maury - ‘Sources of the Remarks in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations’, Synthese 98 (1994), selection from pp. 352-3.
8. Gordon Baker, "Wittgenstein on Metaphysical / Everyday Use", The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 208. (Jul., 2002), pp. 289-302.