Custodian of Grammar (eBook)

Kristijan Krkac, Ph.D., is a professor at Zagreb University, Croatia. He belongs to both the Zagreb School of Economics and Management and the Philosophical Faculty of the Society of Jesus. His interests and publications cover a wide range of subjects including pragmatism, epistemology, epistemology of religion, Ludwig Wittgenstein, ethics, political philosophy, and corporate social responsibility. He is the author of many Croatian works, such as Philosophy, Pragmatism, and Religion (2002), Wittgenstein's Pragmatism, (2003), Routine, Morality, and Pragmatism (2006), The Beginning of Democracy, Arguments for Refutation of Democracy as a Political Theory (2008), and Illegal Substances: an Essay in Trope and Process Ontology (2010, also written in English). He is the editor of two Croatian texts, An Introduction to Business Ethics and CSR (2007) and Introduction to Philosophy (2009). Krkac is also the co-editor of Business Ethics and CSR (2006, written in English with Dj. Njavro) and Ethics and Morality in Business Practice, from a special issue of the Social Responsibility Journal (2008, written in English with J. Debeljak).

Part 1 List of FiguresPart 2 List of TablesPart 3 AcknowledgmentsPart 4 SourcesPart 5 Abbreviations of works by Wittgenstein and used symbolsPart 6 Introduction: Fighting windmillsPart 7 Part One: Wittgenstein and philosophical morphologyChapter 8 1. Philosophical morphology primerChapter 9 2. Wittgenstein the morphologist I: Perspicuous presentation (with Josip Lukin)Chapter 10 3. Wittgenstein the morphologist II: Do not think, but look!Chapter 11 4. Wittgenstein the morphologist III: A form of life is a form of culture (with Josip Lukin)Part 12 Part Two: Three applications - consciousness, certainty, and religionChapter 13 5. The nature of consciousness: Living human beings (with Josip Lukin)Chapter 14 6. Anti-sceptical weapons I: Smells like pragmatismChapter 15 7. Anti-sceptical weapons II: Hinges, gyroscopes, and planetsChapter 16 8. Anti-sceptical weapons III: Life and religion are full of coloursPart 17 BibliographyPart 18 Index