Steven Holtzman - Wittgenstein: To Follow a Rule

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WITTGENSTEIN

To follow a rule

Edited by

Steven Holtzman and Christopher Leich

First published 1981

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1981 Steven H. Holtzman and Christopher M. Leich

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Wittgenstein:
to Follow a Rule

Edited by
Steven H. Holtzman
and
Christopher M. Leich

First published 1981
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016
Set in 10/12 pt Times by Input Typesetting Ltd, London
Introductory Essay and editorial matter
Copyright Steven H. Holtzman and
Christopher M. Leich 1981
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Wittgenstein: to follow a rule.
(International library of philosophy)
I. Holtzman, Steven H.
II. Leich, Christopher M.
192 B3376.W564 80-42299

ISBN 0-7100-0760-4

To the memory of Gareth Evans

Christopher M. Leich and Steven H. Holtzman

Gordon Baker

Christopher Peacocke

Crispin Wright

Gareth Evans

John McDowell

Simon Blackburn

Charles Taylor

Philip Pettit

Gordon Baker is a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

Christopher Peacocke is a Fellow of New College, Oxford.

Crispin Wright is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of St Andrews.

Gareth Evans was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of University College.

John McDowell is a Fellow of University College, Oxford.

Simon Blackburn is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Charles Taylor is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College.

Philip Pettit is Professor of Philosophy in the University of Bradford.

Steven H. Holtzman (ed.) is a Graduate Student at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Christopher M. Leich (ed.) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.

Unless otherwise indicated, all references are to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Blackwell, Oxford, 1953. References to Part I are by section number, and to Part II by page number.

The following abbreviations are used in references to other works by Wittgenstein:

The abbreviation PLP stands for F. Waismann, The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy, R. Harre (ed.), Macmillan, London, 1965. Followed by page number.

The essays and replies in this volume represent, with some modifications, the proceedings of a colloquium held in Oxford in Trinity Term, 1979. A few points concerning the goals of and participants in this colloquium deserve explanation at the outset.

With occasional notable exceptions, critical response to the Philosophical Investigations in the two decades following its publication tended to focus on a fairly limited range of topics, suggested by certain especially striking series of remarks of Wittgenstein's e.g. the idea of family resemblance, the conception of philosophy as therapy, the private language argument and so on and to treat these topics piecemeal, in isolation from one another. An apparently unsystematic book was discussed in a genuinely unsystematic fashion; even the remarks about the connection between meaning and use that Wittgenstein wove into nearly every corner of Part I of the