{"title":"Of knowledge and of knowing that someone is in pain","authors":"P. Hacker","doi":"10.1515/9783110328912.244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328912.244","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a defense of Wittgenstein’s grammatical observation that ‘Iknow I am in pain’ is either no more than an emphatic assertion that thespeaker is in pain, or it is philosophers’ nonsense. Preparatory to the enterpriseWittgenstein’s position, commonly misconstrued, is carefully circumscribed and elaborated. A connective analysis of the concept of knowledge isessayed. Knowledge converges on the category of ability, not of state ormental state. Emphasis is placed on the discourse contexts in which the conceptof knowledge is needed. The semantic field to which the concept ofknowing belongs is sketched. This provides a set of eight conditions againstwhich the sense or lack of sense of ‘I know I am in pain’ can be determined.Tested against those conditions ‘I know that I am in pain’ is patently anomalous,and Wittgenstein’s analysis is vindicated. Recent objections to Wittgenstein’saccount, including the association of knowing that p with beingable to act for the reason that p, are examined and found wanting.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121076772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aspect perception and conceptual perception. Wittgenstein on seeing and understanding","authors":"M. Du","doi":"10.1515/9783110328998.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328998.125","url":null,"abstract":"Aspect perception is one of Wittgenstein’s central concerns in his remarks on the philosophy of psychology. One can read in the Philosophische Untersuchungen that his goal is to determine its place among what he calls “experience concepts” (as one knows, experience concepts, Erfahrungsbegriffe, are a subset of Erlebnisbegriffe). Gemutsbewegungen (=emotions), for instance, fall under Erlebnisbegriffe but are not experiences. However, this place is not easy to figure out because aspect perception has numerous relations with the various psychological concepts Wittgenstein has dealt with. Those concepts are everyday concepts such as thought, understanding etc. and their main feature, according to the Bemerkungen uber die Philosophie der Psychologie seems to be that their use at the first person, present tense, is expressive and that the other uses are descriptive.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123281728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First, Second and Third Person in the Emergence of Thought","authors":"Miguel Ánagel Pérez Jiménez","doi":"10.1515/9783110328998.185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328998.185","url":null,"abstract":"What does it mean to say that thought has social basis? This paper deals with this issue taking into account Davidson’s views on radical translation. In our view, they constitute a plausible model to explain the social basis of thought. Nevertheless, the task demands precisions about the aims and some methodological aspects of that philosophical project. Wittgenstein’s remarks on mutual understanding will help us to precise the misleading aspects of radical translation. The text has three sections. First, we show that radical translation is a version of a phenomenological Leitmotiv. We raise our discussion deploying the first/third person dichotomy. Secondly, we show that radical translation is improved and corrected by Wittgenstein’s remarks on mutual understanding. This leads us to describe a non-interpretive social interaction as the ground of thought. We call this kind of interaction ‘the second person perspective’. Thirdly, we give some reasons for saying that emotivity is the specific feature of the second person . Our thesis is that an emotive non-conceptual interaction is the social grounding of the emergence of thought.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131285543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phänomenologie versus phänomenologische Probleme. Die parallaktische Lösung Wittgensteins","authors":"S. Porta","doi":"10.1515/9783110328998.169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328998.169","url":null,"abstract":"Eine der ratselhaftesten Behauptungen Ludwig Wittgensteins taucht in den Bemerkungen uber die Farben auf: “Es gibt zwar nicht Phanomenologie, wohl aber phanomenologische Probleme”. Der vorliegende Beitrag versucht klarzustellen, das das Ratsel ein nur scheinbares ist, und das Verstandnis jenes Orakels nichts als eine angemessene Kontextualisierung erfordert. Mit ‘Kontextualisierung’ meine ich eine Standortbestimmung der zitierten Bemerkung innerhalb des Gesamtwerks Wittgensteins, und zwar in dem – bereits in anderen Arbeiten vertretenen – Sinn, demzufolge die wittgensteinsche Philosophie in ihrer Gesamtentwicklung eine Neudeutung erfordert, ausgehend von einer Neubewertung der “Ubergangsphase”, in welcher der kontroversenliebende Osterreicher seine eigentumliche Grammatik-Konzeption entwickelt.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130510980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wittgenstein, Marx, and Language Criticism. The Philosophies of Self-Conciousness","authors":"N. A. E. S. Neto","doi":"10.1515/9783110328998.211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328998.211","url":null,"abstract":"I must say this paper results from researches belonging to a larger project of study on Karl Marx’s philosophy I am carrying out, and that the bringing of Wittgenstein and Marx together here presented does not have the aim of trying to prove or to suggest Marx exerted upon Wittgenstein’s philosophy some kind of indirect or second hand influence. My idea is that since they developed their work in dialogue with the same philosophical traditions this fact would make it possible to find out ways of establishing continuity between their philosophies. So, in this work I will bring out some connections I am working on with the aim of trying to read Wittgenstein as a materialist philosopher.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125167377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phänomenologische Probleme des Sehens","authors":"Jesús Padilla Gálvez","doi":"10.1515/9783110328998.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328998.141","url":null,"abstract":"Es ist Edmund Husserl zu verdanken, dass er in Zusammenhang mit der Grammatik auf das Problem der selbststandigen und unselbststandigen Bedeutung hingewiesen hat. Innerhalb des Kapitels ‘Der Unterschied der selbststandigen und unselbststandigen Bedeutungen und die Idee der reinen Grammatik’ seines Werkes ‘Logische Untersuchungen’ macht er auf einen Unterschied bei der Untersuchung der Meinongschen Objekte aufmerksam, indem er, wie im Beispiel des runden Vierecks, zwischen Unsinn und Widersinn unterscheidet. Er besteht also darauf, das Unsinnige oder Sinnlose vom Widersinnigen und Absurden zu trennen. Der Meinongschen Verknupfung “rundes Viereck” spricht er zwar die Existenz eines entsprechenden Objekts ab, gesteht ihm aber eine ideale Bedeutung zu. Um solche Verknupfungen genauer zu untersuchen muss man vorher einige die Grammatik betreffende Fragen beantworten. Ihre Losung besteht darin, dass die Vereinheitlichung der Bedeutungen von “rund” und “Viereck” keinem Gegenstand entspricht. Die Begriffe “rund” und von “Viereck” sind sowohl im Bereich der Vorstellung als auch in dem der Gegenstande miteinander unvertraglich. E. Husserl bleibt dem Bereich der Gegenstandlichkeit verhaftet, wenn er zwar die Bedeutung von “rundes Viereck” als existierend anerkennt, aber ihr gleichzeitig keinen existierenden Gegenstand zuordnen kann.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134111391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hegels “spekulativer Satz” als “grammatische Bewegung” (Wittgenstein)","authors":"W. Lütterfelds","doi":"10.1515/9783110328998.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328998.33","url":null,"abstract":"Bestenfalls einen auseren Anknupfungspunkt scheint es zu geben, wenn man versucht, Hegels Theorie des “spekulativen Satzes” mit der grammatischen Sprachphilosophie Wittgensteins in Beziehung zu setzen. Zwar spricht Wittgenstein in seinen Philosophischen Untersuchungen von “Streitigkeiten zwischen Idealisten, Solipsisten und Realisten”; aber fur alle Positionen gelte, das sie die sprachliche “normale Ausdrucksform” misverstehen. Und Wittgenstein sieht dieses Misverstandnis wiederum darin begrundet, das eine “grammatische Bewegung” falschlicherweise mit einem beobachtbaren, theoriefahigen, aussagbaren Sachverhalt verwechselt wird. Und dennoch, es gibt auf den ersten Blick auch eine verbluffende Parallele zu Hegel. Denn auch Hegel spricht von einer “dialektische[n] Bewegung des Satzes selbst” , die er sogar das “wirkliche Spekulative” nennt. Dabei ist diese “Bewegung” in einem Satz das “Werden” des gegenstandlichen “Subjekt[s]”, das zu einem akzidentellen “Inhalt” oder “Pradikat” wird, und das darin der “sich bewegende … Begriff ist”. Und genau dieses “Werden” soll der spekulative “Inhalt” der Aussage eines Satzes sein, denn es ist als “Bewegung selbst … der Gegenstand\".","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"65 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130755200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How could he try to whistle it","authors":"Éric Lemaire","doi":"10.1515/9783110328998.159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328998.159","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of the Tractatus Wittgenstein says that anyone who understands him should see that the propositions of the book are nonsensical. Furthermore, he asks us to reject them if we want to see the world aright. There is no consensus about this concluding remark. Should we take it at face value? Should we reject it? What is its real meaning? Why does he say such a thing? It is an important issue to understand the book itself. But it is important to understand the second Wittgenstein too since the Tractatus is the principal target of the Investigations. In the Investigations, Wittgenstein apparently tries to avoid such a situation. The questions related to remark 6.54 are related to a more general problem about the nature of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, its place in the history of philosophy, and its inheritance. This problem can be expressed in the following ways: Did he really show that we could not produce a scientific metaphysics? Did he really show that metaphysical propositions are nonsensical? First, I will briefly present three facts. Second, from these facts I will raise the problem. The three facts are the following: 1) The Tractatus is an attempt to construct and apply a method of analysis of ordinary language in order to distinguish between sensical and nonsensical propositions and to pass over silence what is nonsensical. 2) The analysis of ordinary language does not work and cannot work. 3) Even though the analysis of ordinary language is impossible, Wittgenstein applies the concept of nonsense to different areas such as mathematics, ethic, aesthetic, natural sciences, religion, and philosophy.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127901746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phenomenology as Grammar. An Introduction","authors":"Jesús Padilla Gálvez","doi":"10.1515/9783110328998.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328998.7","url":null,"abstract":"This volume gathers papers which were read at the congress held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain), in September 2007, under the general subject of phenomenology. More specifically, the congress was devoted to Wittgenstein’s thoughts on phenomenology. One of the aims of the congress was to consider and examine the lasting importance of phenomenology for philosophic discussion.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114879042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion und transzendentale Ontologie bei Wittgenstein","authors":"Azelarabe Lahkim Bennani","doi":"10.1515/9783110328998.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328998.109","url":null,"abstract":"Wir werden die Ausfuhrungen Wittgensteins zur Religion aus seinen verstreuten Anmerkungen zum Glauben schildern. Die gesamte Untersuchung wird aber von dem Hintergrund der Probleme der Religionsphilosophie ausgefuhrt. Wenn wir den theologischen Zusammenhang der Beschaftigung mit Religion im Auge haben, konnen wir das Unternehmen Wittgensteins besser verstehen. Ausgehend von dieser historisch-theologischen Perspektive darf man die Einstellung Wittgensteins zur Religion als ontologisch-transzendentale verstehen, in der Weise, in der Gott, Ich, Welt, Ethik und Asthetik im Tractatus transzendental sind. Die metaphysischen Begriffe verdanken ihren unsinnigen Charakter einem standigen “Anrennen gegen die Grenzen der Sprache.” Von diesem Standpunkt aus, setzen wir voraus, dass Wittgenstein seine fruhere Einstellung zur Religion in seinem spaten Werk nicht grundsatzlich modifiziert hat. Aber es gibt keinen vermeintlichen theoretischen Faden, der diese Ausfuhrungen zusammenhalt. So wie er in den “Philosophischen Untersuchungen” keine abgeschlossene Liste der Sprachspiele aufgestellt hat, so hat er auch keine systematische Beschreibung des Wortes “Gott” aufstellen wollen.","PeriodicalId":317292,"journal":{"name":"From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series","volume":"23 262","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120978667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}