Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind

Edited by Jonathan Ellis and Daniel Guevara

There are few volumes like this one that are devoted to the significance of Wittgenstein's philosophy but contain chapters by philosophers who are not primarily Wittgenstein scholars.
Contributors are at the forefront of philosophy

Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind

Edited by Jonathan Ellis and Daniel Guevara

Description

Philosophical questions about the mind preoccupied much of Wittgenstein's later writing, and his contribution to them is deep and wide-ranging, bearing upon philosophical issues concerning sense-experience, concept formation, perception, introspection, the science of psychology, aspect perception, the self, the understanding of rules, the relation between mind and brain, artificial intelligence, and many other subjects of current concern. According to a growing number of eminent philosophers, however, many of Wittgenstein's most important insights still have not been properly absorbed by contemporary philosophical debates on these topics. In anything, work on these subjects is less informed by Wittgenstein's examples and discussions than ever before. In this volume, philosophers from inside and outside of Wittgensteinian circles explore Wittgenstein's treatment of philosophcial questions about the mind and issues in contemporary philosophy of mind upon which Wittgenstein's philosophy may have significance. Bringing to bear their broad range of perspectives on his philosophy, these philosophers collectively demonstrate its fundamental import for present-day philosophy of mind.

Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind

Edited by Jonathan Ellis and Daniel Guevara

Foreword: On Getting to Know a State or Process Better: Wittgenstein and the Philospohy of Mind, David Hills
Introduction, Jonathan Ellis and Daniel Guevara
1. Meaning and Understanding, Barry Stroud
2. Seeing an Aspect and Seeing under an Aspect, Brian O'Shaughnessy
3. Wittgenstein on the Role of Experience in Understanding Language, John Campbell
4. Rule-Following Revisited, Warren Goldfarb
5. The Private Language Argument One More Time, Robert J. Fogelin
6. Rules, Privacy, and Physicalism, Jim Hopkins
7. Conceiving of Conscious States, Christopher Peacocke
8. Sensation, Introspection, and the Phenomenal, Jonathan Ellis
9. Das Überraschende: Wittgenstein on the Surprising Mathematics, Juliet Floyd
10. Pain: A Philosophical Borderland, Claude Imbert
11. Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology: Methodological Reflections, P.M.S. Hacker

Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind

Edited by Jonathan Ellis and Daniel Guevara

Author Information

Jonathan Ellis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California ,Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley (2002). He works primarily in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology.

Daniel Guevara is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (1992). He works primarily in the fields of moral philosophy and moral psychology, with a strong interest in Kant.

Contributors:

John Campbell
Jonathan Ellis
Juliet Floyd
Robert J. Fogelin
Warren Goldfarb
P. M. S. Hacker
David Hills
Claude Imbert
Jim Hopkins
Brian O'Shaughnessy
Christopher Peacocke
Barry Stroud

Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind

Edited by Jonathan Ellis and Daniel Guevara

Reviews and Awards

"This collection brings together first-rate interpretative essays that exhibit the import of Wittgenstein's philosophy for general philosophical issues and especially for fundamental questions in the philosophy of mind, and equally good essays in the philosophy of mind, written with full awareness of many of the most important insights in Wittgenstein. Philosophers of mind and Wittgenstein scholars will benefit much from a close reading of these essays. Moreover, the book should be of great interest to all philosophers. It is a major contribution that will be of lasting value."--Olav Gjelsvik, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews