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Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein: The Standard Meter, Contingent Apriori, and Beyond

Martin Gustafsson

The chapters in this book elucidate the relevant connections between Kripke's work and Wittgenstein, specifically concerning the standard meter, contingent apriori, and rule-following.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Aug 1st, 2023
  • Pages: 300
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.75in - 1.30lb
  • EAN: 9781032139975
  • Categories: History & Surveys - Modern

About the Author

Martin Gustafsson is Professor of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is working mainly within the philosophy of language, philosophy of action, and the history of analytic philosophy. He has published papers on the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe, J. L. Austin, Stanley Cavell, Donald Davidson, Gottlob Frege, Ian Hacking, W. V. O. Quine, Gilbert Ryle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and others.

Oskari Kuusela is Associate Professor in philosophy at the University of East Anglia. His main philosophical interests relate to philosophical methodology, the history of analytic philosophy, and ethics. His monographs include The Struggle Against Dogmatism (2008) and Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy (2019). He is also the co-editor of several edited collections on Wittgenstein, including The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein (2011).

Jakub Mácha has published on philosophy of language and classical German philosophy. He is the author of Wittgenstein on Internal and External Relations: Tracing All the Connections (2015) and The Philosophy of Exemplarity: Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference (2023). He co-edited several volumes: Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language (2016), Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and Figurative Language (2018), and Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference (2019).

Praise for this book

"At important points in his work, Kripke was in dialogue with the thought of Wittgenstein. The editors have assembled an impressive team of international Wittgenstein scholars with a deep knowledge of the analytic tradition to expand and explore this dialogue, re-examining the relationship between the work of two philosophers, providing fresh insights, and revealing tensions between Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein on rule-following and his own views about meaning. The focus is on names, modality, and the meter-rod, but the issues raised touch on some of the deepest questions in the philosophy of language: the connection between meaning and practice, the nature of the a priori, transcendental realism versus transcendental idealism, and the aims and methods of philosophy. This volume must be a starting point for all future discussions of these issues."

Marie McGinn, University of York, UK

"Wittgenstein and Kripke are in certain important respects very similar and in others very different philosophers. This inspired volume explores these comparisons along multiple interesting dimensions."

Paul Boghossian, New York University, USA

"This volume re-shapes the conversation regarding the intricated connections between Wittgenstein's and Kripke's work. It is, without a doubt, a must-have for any scholar working in either the Analytical tradition or Wittgensteinian philosophy."

Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana, Louisiana State University, USA