Wittgenstein and Naturalism

Kevin M. Cahill, Thomas Raleigh, Kevin M. Cahill , Thomas Raleigh

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Routledge
14 August 2020

Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy of mind; Ethics & moral philosophy; Philosophy of mathematics; Philosophy of science

Series: Wittgenstein's Thought and Legacy

"Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality. He also developed innovative views about the status and methodology of philosophy and was explicitly opposed to crudely ""scientistic"" worldviews. His later thought has thus often been understood as elaborating a nuanced form of naturalism appealing to such notions as ""form of life"", ""primitive reactions"", ""natural history"", ""general facts of nature"" and ""common behaviour of mankind"". And yet, Wittgenstein is strangely absent from much of the contemporary literature on naturalism and naturalising projects.

This is the first collection of essays to focus explicitly on the relationship between Wittgenstein and naturalism. The volume is divided into four sections, each of which addresses a different aspect of naturalism and its relation to Wittgenstein's thought. The first section considers how naturalism could or should be understood. The second section deals with some of the main problematic domains—consciousness, meaning, mathematics—that philosophers have typically sought to naturalise. The third section explores ways in which the conceptual nature of human life might be continuous in important respects with animals. The final section is concerned with the naturalistic status and methodology of philosophy itself. This book thus casts a fresh light on many classical philosophical issues and brings Wittgensteinian ideas to bear on a number of current debates-for example experimental philosophy, neo-pragmatism and animal cognition/ethics-in which naturalism is playing a central role."

Edited by: Kevin M. Cahill, Thomas Raleigh, Kevin M. Cahill, Thomas Raleigh
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9780367593452
ISBN 10: 0367593459
Series: Wittgenstein's Thought and Legacy
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 14 August 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kevin M. Cahill is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. He works mainly on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. His publications include The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity (2011). Thomas Raleigh is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Ruhr-University, Bochum. His research is primarily in Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology with particular interest in the work of Wittgenstein. As well as the present volume, he is also the co-editor, together with Jonathan Knowles, of Acquaintance: New Essays (forthcoming).

Reviews for Wittgenstein and Naturalism

"""This collection fills a lacuna, as the first volume focusing on the relationship between Wittgenstein and naturalism. It addresses important topics in current philosophical debates and is philosophical rather than exegetical in focus. The essays cover a wide variety of themes and are pertinent both to Wittgenstein scholarship and current debates concerning naturalism."" – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"