The Struggle Against Dogmatism Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy

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1 Wittgenstein on Philosophical Problems: From One Fundamental Problem to Particular Problems 1.1 The Tractatus on philosophical problems 18 1.2 Wittgenstein`s later conception of philosophical problems 27 1.3 Examples of philosophical problems as based on misunderstandings 30 1.4 Tendencies and inclinations of thinking: philosophy as therapy 43 1.5 Wittgenstein`s notion of peace in philosophy: the contrast with the Tractatus 46 2 Two Conceptions of Clarification 2.1 The Trattatus`s conception of philosophy as logical analysis 55 2.2 Wittgenstein`s later critique of the Tractatus`s notion of logical analysis 2.3 Clarification in Wittgenstein`s later philosophy 74 3 From Metaphysics and Philosophical Theses to Grammar: Wittgenstein`s Turn 3.1 Philosophical theses, metaphysical philosophy, and the Tractatus 97 3.2 Metaphysics and conceptual investigation: the problem with metaphysics 3.3 Conceptual investigation and the problem of dogmatism 3.4 Wittgenstein`s turn 720 3.5 The turn and the role of rules 132 3.6 Rules as objects of comparison 140 3.7 Rules, metaphysical projection, and the logic of language 145 4 Grammar, Meaning, and Language 149 4.1 Grammar, use, and meaning: the problem of the status of Wittgenstein`s remarks 150 4.2 Wittgenstein`s formulation of his conception of meaning 158 4.3 The concept of language: comparisons with instruments and games 163 4.4 Wittgenstein`s development and the advantages of his mature view 168 4.5 Examples as centers of variation and the conception of language as a family 4.6 Avoiding dogmatism about meaning 176 4.7 Wittgenstein`s methodological shift and analyses in terms of necessary conditions 180 5 The Concepts of Essence and Necessity 184 5.1 Constructivist readings and the arbitrariness/ nonarbitrariness of grammar 5.2 Problems with constructivism 188 5.3 The methodological dimension of Wittgenstein`s conception of essence 5.4 The nontemporality of grammatical statements 795 5.5 Explanations of necessity in terms of factual regularities 198 5.6 Wittgenstein`s account of essence and necessity 204 5.7 Bevond theses about the source of necessity 208 6 Philosophical Hierarchies and the Status of Clarificatory Statements 215 6.1 Philosophical hierarchies and Wittgenstein`s "leading principle" 216 6.2 The concept of perspicuous presentation 22ft 6.3 The (alleged) necessity of accepting philosophical statements 238 6.4 The concept of agreement and the problem of injustice 247 6.5 The criteria of the correctness of grammatical remarks 252 6.6 Multidimensional descriptions and the new use of old dogmatic claims 7 Wittgenstein`s Conception of Philosophy,Everyday Language, and Ethics 265 7.1 Metaphysics disguised as methodology 7.2 The historicity of philosophy 271 7.3 Philosophy and the everyday 275