Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Wittgenstein's philosophy of psychology


Meaning something, wanting, intending, understanding, explaining the meaning of an expression,
knowing what an expression means, believing things to be so, interpreting
Thought and thinking, expectation, wish and their fulfilment, current experience, pain and idealism
To find new solutions to the same problems, agreement with reality
The nature of language and linguistic representation
The meaning of an expression is its use, and it is its use that gives it life
To resolve/to dissolve.  (Re)solution, dissolution and illusion
Philosophy, a contribution not to human knowledge but to human understanding
It is incorrect to say that the relationship between a name and an object is psychological
Intra-grammatical resolution.  Psychology, the study of psychological phenomena,
is irrelevant to logical investigations
Pain, joy, depression, thought, intention, etc. are not hidden behind the painful movement,
joyful smile, depressed mien and tone, expression of thought, intentional action, etc.
The psychologist does not observe them "indirectly", and the subject does not observe them
"directly" -since she does not observe them at all
Thought and experience do not rest on introspection (indeed, the very idea that they do
depends on a misconception of introspection).  They rest on nothing at all
The subject of psychological attributes is not the ego, the mind or the body,
but the animal as a whole


http://info.sjc.ox.ac.uk/scr/hacker/docs/TheDevelopmentOfWittgensteinsPhilosophyOfPsychology.pdf

http://info.sjc.ox.ac.uk/scr/hacker/docs/Philosophy%20for%20RIP.pdf

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