Insight and Illusion: Themes in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xix

I. WITTG ENSTEIN\'S EARLY CONCEPTION OF
PHILOSOPHY
1. Background 1
2. The \'Preliminary\' on Philosophy 12
3. Philosophy and Illusion 15
4. Philosophy as Critique and as Analysis 22

II. THE DIALOGUE WITH FRE GE AND RUSSELL
1. Agreements and Disagreements 28
2. The Grundgedankeof the Tractatus 34
3. The Laws of Logic 42
4. A Prelude to Conventionalism 50

III. MEANING, METAPHYSICS , AND THE MIND

1. The Picture Theory of Meaning 56
2. The Metaphysics of the Tractatus 65
3. Connecting Language with Reality: the role of the mind 73

IV. EMPIRICAL REALISM AND TRANSCENDENTAL
SOLIPSISM

1. The Self of Solipsism 81
2. \'I am my World\' 90
3. \'The limits of language mean the limits of my world\' 100
4. Later Years 104

V. DISINTEGRATION AND RECONSTRUCTION

1. The Colour-Exclusion Problem 108
2. Dismantling the Tractatus 113
3. The Brouwer Lecture 120
4. Moving off in Fresh Directions 128
5. The Vienna Circle and Wittgenstein\'s Principle of Verification 134

VI. WITTGENSTEIN\'S LATER CONCEPTION OF
PHILOSOPHY

1. A Kink in the Evolution of Philosophy 146
2. A Cure for the Sickness of the Understanding 151
3. Philosophy, Science, and Description 156
4. Philosophy and Ordinary Language 161
5. The Phenomenology and Sources of Philosophical Illusion 165
6. Systematic Philosophy 175

VII. METAPHYSICS AS THE SHAD OW OF GRAMMAR

1. Grammar 179
2. The Autonomy of Grammar 185
3. Grammar and Metaphysics 193
4. A Note on Kant and Wittgenstein 206

VII. THE REFUTATION OF SOLIPSISM

1. Introduction 215
2. From Transcendental Solipsism to Methodological Solipsism 218
3. The Solipsist\'s Predicament: a restatement and second diagnosis 226
4. The Refutation 229

IX. PRIVATE LI NGUISTS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS

1. A Disease of the Intellect 245
2. Following Rules 247
3. Philosophical brvestigations § 243 251
4. The Private Language 255
s. The Epistemology of the Private Linguist 261
6. Wittgenstein\'s Criticism of the Private Language 264
7. \'Only I know\' and \'Only I have\' 272

X. \'A CLOUD OF PHILOSOPHY CONDENSED INTO A DROP OF GRAMMAR\'

1. Can one know that one is in pain? 276
2. Self-consciousness: the overthrow of the Cartesian picture 278
3. The \'Inner\' and the \'Outer\' 284
4. Experience and its Natural Expression 291
5. Avowals and Descriptions 297
6. Objections and Deflections 302

XI. CRITERIA, REALISM, AND ANTI-REALISM

1 . The Origin of the Idea 307
2. Plotting the Contour-lines 310
3, Further Complications 318
4. Red Herrings: realism and anti-realism 322

INDEX 337