William H. Brenner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University. He is the translator, with John F. Holley, of Joachim Schulte's Wittgenstein: An Introduction, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Logic and Philosophy: An Integrated Introduction.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Chapter One
Introduction

Thales to Wittgenstein

Chapter Two
The Philosophical Investigations

Philosophical Investigation
Language
Pictures of the Essence of Language
Logic and Philosophy
Following a Rule
Mind
Sensation
Thought
Kinaesthesia
Aspect Perception
Concept Formation
The Concept of the Soul

Chapter Three
Sensation and the Soul

Sensations, Beetles, and "Private Language"
The Soulless Tribe

Chapter Four
Color and Number

Color Grammar
Arithmetic as Grammar

Chapter Five
God

Theology as Grammar
Religions, Language, and Ethics

Chapter Six
Conclusion

Philosophy and the Yearning for the Transcendent

Bibliography

Index to Sections in Philosophical Investigations

Index