The Cambridge companion to Wittgenstein / edited by Hans Sluga, David G. Stern.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-495) and index.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: life and work : an introduction / Hans Sluga -- Wittgenstein's critique of philosophy / Robert J. Fogelin -- Pictures, logic, and the limits of time and sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Thomas Ricketts -- Fitting versus tracking : Wittgenstein on representation / Donna M. Summerfield -- Philosophy as grammar / Newton Garver -- A philosophy of mathematics between two camps / Steve Gerrard -- Necessity and normativity / Hans-Johann Glock -- Wittgenstein, mathematics, and ethics : resisting the attractions of realism / Cora Diamond -- Notes and afterthoughts on the opening of Wittgenstein's Investigation / Stanley Cavell -- Mind, meaning, and practice / Barry Stroud -- "Whose house is that?" : Wittgenstein on the self / Hans Sluga -- The question of linguistic idealism revisited / David Bloor -- Forms of life : mapping the rough ground / Naomi Scheman -- Certainties of a world-picture : the epistemological investigations of On certainty / Michael Kober -- The availability of Wittgenstein's philosophy / David G. Stern.

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessible. The essays in this volume address central themes in Wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics. They chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between its different stages. The authors illuminate the character of the whole body of work by keeping a tight focus on some key topics: the style of the philosophy, the conception of grammar contained in it, rule-following, convention, logical necessity, the self, and what Wittgenstein called in a famous phrase, "forms of life." An important final essay offers a fundamental reassessment of the status of the many posthumously published texts. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Wittgenstein currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Wittgenstein.