A Beginners Guide To The Later Philosophy Of Wittgenstein

In this Beginners Guide Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning the analysis of necessity and its roots in convention the relation of thought and language the nature of the mind and its relation to behaviour selfconsciousness and knowledge of other minds. This unique form of introduction will cap