{"title":"Series: Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnthem Studies in Wittgenstein\u003c\/em\u003e offers a thoughtful exploration of one of the twentieth century’s most influential philosophers. This series delves into Wittgenstein’s ideas with clarity and depth, making complex concepts accessible to readers interested in philosophy and intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for scholars and curious minds alike, the collection provides insightful analysis that illuminates Wittgenstein’s impact on language, logic, and thought. Engaging and carefully considered, these studies invite readers to reflect on philosophical questions that continue to resonate today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"philosophical-embarrassment-by-peter-campbell-9781839997662","title":"Philosophical Embarrassment","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShould philosophers, on occasion, be embarrassed in their work? Were they? We look at some cases in the history of modern philosophy and study the grounds for embarrassment and the way philosophers have dealt with it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHume and Wittgenstein are our prime examples of philosophers who were aware that through their work, they had undermined the very possibility of doing such work— that the aims of traditional philosophy are out of reach— and thus have been thoroughly embarrassed. What are the upshots, they ask, for philosophers and their subject? One way of responding was to give up the traditional aims so as to protect oneself from further embarrassment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis was the strategy we find in the early Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and in Quine who, in their own ways, tried to reconceive the aims and subject matter of philosophy in a narrow fashion that took science as its model. This move, however, comes with its own embarrassments, as we illustrate with the later Wittgenstein's cautionary remarks about the embarrassments of scientism and his warnings about the related inclination to self-deception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934185472236,"sku":"9781839997662","price":324.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781839997662-philosophical-embarrassment.jpg?v=1783902225"},{"product_id":"practical-rationality-learning-and-convention-by-christopher-winch-9781839998881","title":"Practical Rationality, Learning and Convention","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected writings of Christopher Winch on topics related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of articles by one of the leading philosophers of education in the English-speaking world takes up themes in the philosophy of language, epistemology, and the philosophy of learning to shed light on philosophical puzzles concerning learning, concept formation, knowing how, the following of norms, and whether there is a single concept of rationality that can be applied universally. Winch writes from a Wittgensteinian perspective, seeking dissolution rather than solution to philosophical problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection also has a strong practical emphasis; the topics chosen are nearly all related to practical problems of educational policy and practice as well as have intrinsic philosophical interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934188847340,"sku":"9781839998881","price":116.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781839998881-practical-rationality-learning-and-convention.jpg?v=1783902937"},{"product_id":"wittgenstein-human-beings-and-conversation-by-david-cockburn-9781839999451","title":"Wittgenstein, Human Beings and Conversation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book brings together David Cockburn's best work on Wittgensteinian themes relating to 'mind' and 'language'. While none of these papers is well described as 'exegetical', most are discussions of Wittgenstein, and all are discussions of themes central to his later work and strongly influenced by it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe papers can be roughly divided between 'the philosophy of mind' and 'the philosophy of language'. They are, however, united by the idea that this standard classification of topics stands in the way of clear thinking about core issues. Closely connected with that, they are united by the notion that the concept of a human being must be central to any philosophical treatment of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCockburn's approach is marked by the detailed attention given to the human bodily form and his approach to language by the central place given to the idea of conversation. The discussions are enriched by incorporating some consideration of our relation to non-human creatures. The papers are linked by an insistence on the inescapably ethical dimension of any adequate discussion of these issues. 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This form of naturalism emphasises achieving a clarified view of complex, natural phenomena in their natural setting, with a view to describing patterns and connections that are in plain view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWittgenstein is seen as applying these methods to the task of conceptual clarification, whose aim is to dissolve philosophical problems and paradoxes. 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