Recent Responses to the Philosophy of Wittgenstein: Life and Language

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Re-Reading Wittgenstein: Problems and Prospects/R.C. Pradhan. 2. On Potter’s Interpretation of ‘Meaning’ and ‘Sense’ in Wittgenstein’s Notes on Logic/K. C. Pandey. 3. Wittgenstein’s View on Empirical Reasoning and Induction/S. Shyamkishore Singh. 4. Wittgenstein’s Theory of Representation: An Exposition/Tafajol Hossain. 5. Sense, Form and Representation: Rejection of Ontological Hierarchy in Early Wittgenstein/Siddique Alam Beg. 6. Wittgenstein’s Treatment of Word-Meaning in Philosophical Investigations/Jagat Pal. 7. Language and Language-Games/Lalruatfela. 8. Language Game and Multi-Culture: From Wittgenstein to Postmodernism/P. K. Pokker. 9. Language-Games: Interdisciplinary Implications/Ravindra K. S. Choudhary. 10. Solitary Individual and Wittgenstein’s Concept of Rule-Following/Mamata M. Panda. 11. Mental Predicates in Wittgenstein/P. R. Bhat. 12. Wittgenstein on Meaning: Explorations in the Light of Embodied Cognitive Science/Navneet Chopra. 13. Is Private Language Possible? A Critical Study in Philosophical Investigations/Ratikanta Panda. 14. Is Private Language Possible: Wittgenstein’s Response/L. Bishwanath Sharma. 15. Wittgenstein’s ‘Phenomenological Understanding’ of Language and its Implication on Continental Philosophy/S. Panneerselvam. 16. Ordinary Language Philosophy: Wittgenstein and Moore/Bhaskar Bhattacharyya. 17. Sub Specie Aeternitatis The World of the Good Life/Bijoy H Boruah. 18. Tractatus and Transcendentalism/K. Srinivas. 19. Wittgensteinian Interpretations of Language/Roitualiana Darlong. 20. Philosophy of Culture: A Later Wittgenstenian Account/Kanti Lal Das. 21. Religion and Self: A Metaphysical Coherence In Wittgenstein’s Philosophy/Ashoka Kumar Tarai. 22. Wittgenstein on Human Action: Understanding Ritual as a ‘Performative’/Tarang Kapoor. 23. Tractatus and Investigations: Beyond the Contrast/Rumpa Chakraborty (Beg). Index.

 

The essays contained in this anthology explore philosophical issues which have often been raised during recent debates and discussions in Wittgensteinian epistemology, theology, logic, ethics, religion, social science, cultural studies, psychology and language. It is based on the idea that Wittgenstein’s thoughts have not only been interpreted by the academicians in philosophy, but have been used as a method in many other fields of Humanities and Social Sciences as well. Keeping in view this idea, the book gives a fresh interpretation from the perspectives of recent issues raised on life and language in the philosophy of Wittgenstein. It discusses Wittgensteinian issues through the perspectives of the Indian as well as the contemporary world. The book gives a fresh interpretation from the perspectives of recent issues raised on life and language in the philosophy of Wittgenstein. The essays contained in this anthology explore philosophical issues that have been raised during recent debates and discussions in Wittgensteinian epistemology, theology, logic, ethics, religion, social science, cultural studies, psychology and language.