Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
In this definitive new en face German-English edition, Wittgenstein experts Peter Hacker and Joachim Schulte have incorporated significant editorial changes to earlier editions of Philosophical Investigations in order to reflect more closely Wittgenstein's original intentions.M. S. Hacker is Emeritus Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford. He is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, 1980-96) the first two volumes co-authored with G. P. Baker (2nd revised eds, 2003, 2009) and of Wittgenstein’s Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). He has also written extensively on philosophy of mind, including Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), co-authored with M. R. Bennett, and Human Nature: The Categorial Framework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature.
Joachim Schulte teaches philosophy at the University of Zurich. He is also a professional translator, and editor of Wittgenstein’s writings. He edited the authoritative critical-genetic edition of Wittgenstein’s Philosophische Untersuchungen (Suhrkamp, 2001). He is author of Wittgenstein – an Introduction (1989), Chor und Gesetz: Wittgenstein im Kontext (Suhrkamp,1990), Experience and Expression – Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology (Clarendon Press, 1993), and of many dozens of philosophical papers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405159289 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405159286 |
| Title | Philosophical Investigations |
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 592 |
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