Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations : a critical guide / edited by Arif Ahmed. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2010. - ix, 248 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge critical guides . - Cambridge critical guides .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index.

From referentialism to human action: the Augustinian theory of language / Robert Hanna -- What's doing? Activity, naming and Wittgenstein's response to Augustine / Michael Luntley -- Measure for measure? Wittgenstein on language-game criteria and the Paris standard metre bar / Dale Jacquette -- Wittgenstein on family resemblance concepts / Michael Forster -- Wittgenstein on concepts / Hans-Johann Glock -- Wittgenstein vs contextualism / Jason Bridges -- Wittgenstein and the linguistic turn / Richard Rorty -- Rorty's Wittgenstein / Paul Horwich -- Are meaning, understanding, etc. definite states? / John McDowell -- Another strand in the private language argument / David Stern -- Deductive inference and aspect perception / Arif Ahmed -- Remembering intentions / William Child.

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Language and languages--Philosophy.
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