Immediately upon its posthumous publication in 1953, LudwigWittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" was hailed as amasterpiece, and the ensuing years have confirmed this initialassessment. Today it is widely acknowledged to be the single mostimportant philosophical work of the twentieth century. In thisdefinitive new en face German-English edition, Wittgenstein expertsPeter Hacker and Joachim Schulte have incorporated significanteditorial changes to earlier editions of "PhilosophicalInvestigations" in order to reflect more closely Wittgenstein'soriginal intentions. Notable revisions include the placement ofWittgenstein's notes - "Randbemerkungen - " into their designatedpositions in the text, some corrections to the originally publishedGerman text, and the numbering of all the remarks in what was Part2 and is now named "Philosophy of Psychology - A Fragment."Extensive modifications and corrections have also been made to G.E. M. Anscombe's original English translation. Detailed editorialendnotes have been added to illuminate difficult translationdecisions and to identify references and allusions inWittgenstein's original text.
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Peter Hacker is the author of the four-volume AnalyticalCommentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, 1980-96)the first two volumes co-authored with G. P. Baker (SecondEditions, 2003, 2009) and of Wittgenstein’s Place inTwentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). He hasalso written extensively on philosophy of mind, includingPhilosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003) andHistory of Cognitive Neuroscience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008),co-authored with M. R. Bennett, and Human Nature: The CategorialFramework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on humannature.
Joachim Schulte edited the authoritative critical-genetic editionof Wittgenstein’s Philosophische Untersuchungen(2001). He is authorof Wittgenstein: An Introduction (1989), Chor und Gesetz:Wittgenstein im Kontext (1990), Experience and Expression:Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology (1993), and of many dozensof philosophical papers.
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