The Uses Of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy Of Language Hardcover

Charles Travis

This book provides a novel interpretation of the ideas about language in Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'. In particular, the author places the 'private language argument' in the context of wider themes in the Investigations, and thereby develops a picture of what it is for words to bear the meaning they do. Travis elaborates two versions of a private language argument, and shows the consequences of these for current trends in the philosophical theory of meaning.

9780198249429

English

Oxford University Press

27-04-1989

416

Charles Travis's The Uses of Sense offers a novel reading of Wittgenstein's philosophy of language. Travis's discussion is detailed, extensive, and supported by frequent commentary on current Wittgenstein scholarship.' Review of Metaphysics 'thorough and wide-ranging explorations ... he is clearly very much in command of his material' Bede Rundle, Trinity College, Oxford, Mind