(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein
(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy. It will intrigue readers interested in issues of interpretation
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SYNTHESE LffiRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editor-in-Chief"
JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Senior Advisory Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands DONALD DAVIDSON, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. JAN WOLENSKI, Jagielionian University, Krakow, Poland
VOLUME 319
(OVER)INTERPRETING WITTGENSTEIN by ANAT BILETZKI Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4020-1327-0 ISBN 978-94-007-0822-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0822-8
Cover art paperback: © Studies ojWittgenstein, Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish National Gallery of Modem Art, elo Beeldrecht Amsterdam 2003
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In memory of Burton Dreben Friend, Teacher, Interpreter
CONTENTS
Preface INTRODUCTION
ix
1
PART I: ON INTERPRETATION
11
Chapter 1. Interpretation and Overinterpretation
13
PART II: THE STANDARD INTERPRETATIONS
29
Chapter 2. The First Station: Logico-Linguistic (Anti-)Metaphysics
35
Chapter 3. The Second Station: Sophisticated Metaphysics (and Meaning as Use)
47
Chapter 4. The Third Station: Reasonable Meta-Readings
59
Chapter 5. The Fourth Station: Taking Nonsense Seriously
81
Chapter 6. The Fifth Station: Over the Deep End, Or the Ethical Reading
95
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PART III: OFF THE MAINLINE: NON-STANDARD ISSUES
107
Chapter 7. Mathematics
109
Chapter 8. Religion
129
Chapter 9. Social Science
145
PART IV: CULTURE AND COMMUNITY OF INTERPRETATION
163
Chapter 10. Going Continental
165
Chapter 11. Going Diverse
179
Chapter 12. Idolatry and Fashion
187
Notes
199
References
219
Index of Names
233
Preface
When in 1994 I first started worrying about the risks of overinterpretation Burton Dreben pooh-poohed the very idea; and then tried to extract from me exactly what I meant by "overinterpretation." This book is the result of that extraction, a process that has taken several years to come to fruition but is, alas, still changing, developing and - hopefully - maturing. As such, perhaps it should not have been written, should not ever be written. For with the passing of time the enterprise of interpreting Wittgenstein takes on such
