Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind

P. M. S. Hacker is a Fellow of St. Johna s College Oxford. He is author of Insight and Illusion and Appearance and Reality (Blackwell, 1987). He edited The Renaissance of Gravure: the Art of S. W. Hayter. He has written a number of books with G. P. Baker: Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning (Blackwell, 1980), Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (Blackwell, 1985), Language, Sense and Nonsense (Blackwell, 1984) and Scepticism, Rules and Language (Blackwell, 1984).

Acknowledgements. Preface. Abbreviations. Analytical Commentary. Part I: The Private Language (SS 243--315):. Introduction. The Private Language Arguments. Privacy. Private Ostensive Definition. Men, Minds and Machines. Avowals and Descriptions. Behaviour and Behaviouralism. The Inner and the outer. Part II: Thought (SS 316--62):. Introduction. Thinking: methodological muddles and categorial confusions. Thinking: the soul of language. Part III: Imagination (SS 363--97): . Introduction. Images and Imagination. Part IV: The Self and Self--Reference (SS 398--411): . Introduction. I and my self. Part V: Consciousness (SS 411--27):. Introduction. The World of Consciousness. Criteria. Index.