Description:
These papers develop, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgenstein's treatment of mind and language. The approach is distinctive in giving central place to the individual's relations with others in a way that involves detailed attention to the human bodily form and to conversation, and a significant ethical dimension.
Review Quotes:
"These are deeply thoughtful papers. David Cockburn turns our attention to features of our lives that we too frequently lose sight of in philosophy. Readers will especially profit from the wide-ranging and realistic examples and from the many ways Cockburn brings out the ethical significance of our philosophical questions about mind and language." -- Cora Diamond, Corcoran Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia