Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity

The Second Edition of <i>Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity</i> (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein’s <i>Philosophical Investigations</i>) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein’s complex and controversial remarks on following rules. <ul type=”disc”> <li>Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following</li> <li>Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein’s conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity</li> <li>Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the <i>Nachlass</i></li> <li>Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years</li> </ul>