dc.contributor.author | Pichler, Alois | |
dc.contributor.editor | Greve, Sebastian Sunday | |
dc.contributor.editor | Macha, Jakub | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-02T08:38:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-02T08:38:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.Published | In: Grève, S. S., Mácha, J. (Eds.), Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language, p. 55-75 | eng |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-137-47254-0 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1956/20647 | |
dc.description.abstract | This piece continues my efforts to identify the link between the Philosophical Investigations’ (PI) criss-cross form and its conception of philosophy and philosophical methods. In my ‘The Philosophical Investigations and Syncretistic Writing’ (2013) I established a connection between the PI’s criss-cross form and Wittgenstein’s saying that philosophy proper is like ‘Dichtung’. In this chapter I link the criss-cross form with the PI’s conception of the example and the central role it receives in Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. I contrast the PI’s conception of philosophy with a conception that is guided by a scientistic approach and regards philosophical problems as somewhat similar to normal science puzzles. While this approach is prominent nowadays, it is not a conception shared by the PI. Rather, it is exactly this approach that the PI opposes with its criss-cross form. I hold that the radical nature of the PI’s form has largely gone unnoticed in Wittgenstein reception, including among scholars who regard Wittgenstein as a ‘therapeutic’ philosopher. As in my 2013 paper, here too I refer to Ortner’s (2000) description of writing strategies as a valuable tool for identifying working strategies and turning points in Wittgenstein’s formation of the PI, especially ‘linear step-by-step’, ‘syncretistic’ and ‘puzzle’ writing. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | eng |
dc.title | Ludwig Wittgenstein and Us 'Typical Western Scientists' | eng |
dc.type | Chapter | |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | |
dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright The Editors and The Author | eng |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472540_3 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1284528 | |