Professor Fogelin has provided an authoritative critical evaluation of both the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, making these key texts accessible to the general reader.

Part 1 Wittgenstein's Tractatus; Chapter 1 The Atomistic Ontology of the Tractatus; Chapter 2 Picturing the World; Chapter 3 Propositions; Chapter 4 The Logic of Propositions; Chapter 5 Generality; Chapter 6 The Naive Constructivism of the Tractatus; Chapter 7 Necessity; Chapter 8 My World, Its Value, and Silence; Part 2 Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy; Chapter 9 The Critique of the Tractatus; Chapter 10 Understanding; Chapter 11 Sceptical Doubts and a Sceptical Solution to These Doubts; Chapter 12 The Private Language Argument; Chapter 13 Topics in Philosophical Psychology; Chapter 14 Topics in the Philosophy of Mathematics; Chapter 15 Wittgenstein and the History of Philosophy;