Wittgenstein and Phenomenology

Oskari Kuusela is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Struggle against Dogmatism: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy (2008), Key Terms in Ethics (2010) and Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy: Re-examining the Roots and Development of Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming). He is the co-editor of Wittgenstein and His Interpreters (2007, paperback 2013), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein (2011, paperback 2014) and Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein (Routledge, forthcoming). Mihai Ometiță is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the New Europe College (Bucharest), and is currently researching Wittgenstein’s and Merleau-Ponty’s accounts of intentional action in light of cinematographic experience. He contributed to the volume Colours in the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy (2017). He wrote a PhD thesis on the problem of phenomenology in middle Wittgenstein’s manuscripts (2015) and a research MA thesis on the Heidegger-Cassirer debate on Kant’s ethics (2011). Timur Uçan received his PhD from the University of East Anglia (in co-supervision with the University of Bordeaux, thesis title: The Issue of Solipsism in the Early Works of Sartre and Wittgenstein). He has worked as a Temporary Associate to Teaching and Research at Bordeaux Montaigne University and is a Member of the Laboratory of Sciences, Philosophy and Humanities (Bordeaux, EA 4574).

Introduction

Oskari Kuusela and Mihai Ometiță

1. Phenomenology in Grammar: Explicitation-verificationism, Arbitrariness, and the Vienna Circle

Mauro L. Engelmann

2. Phenomenology, Logic, and Liberation from Grammar

Denis McManus

3. Husserl and Wittgenstein on Description and Normativity

Daniel Dwyer

4. Heidegger and Wittgenstein: The Notion of a Fundamental Question and the Possibility of a Genuinely Philosophical Logic

Oskari Kuusela

5. Phenomenology, Language, and the Limitations of the Wittgensteinian Grammatical Investigation

Avner Baz

6. Pain and Space: the Middle Wittgenstein, the Early Merleau-Ponty

Mihai Ometiță

7. Internal Relations in Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty

Katherine J. Morris

8. Can There Be a Logic of Grief?: Why Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty Say ‘Yes’.

Rupert Read

9. Is Self-consciousness Consciousness of One’s Self?

Jean-Philippe Narboux

10. Life and World are One’. World, Self and Ethics in the Work of Levinas and Wittgenstein

Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen