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Peter Philipp and Richard Raatzsch
Essays on Wittgenstein
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No. 8, 1993
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contents
Preface
Philosophical Investigations 2 :
Wittgenstein's Remarks on a Complete
Language
Richard Raatzsch
Philosophical Investigations 65ff. :
On Family Resemblance
Richard Raatzsch
Philosophical Investigations 206 :
The Common Behavior of Mankind
Richard Raatzsch
Philosophical Investigations 293:
Private versus Public Beetles
Peter Philipp
Philosophical Investigations 244:
"Physiognomic language-games?
Richard Raatzsch
HOW not to speak on Wittgenstein and
Social Science
Richard Raatzsch
The Philosophical Background of some
Tendencies in Epistemic Logic
Peter Philipp

Preface
The following essays are not systematically
linked with one another. What they have in
common is that they all deal with Wittgenstein's
philosophy, and that they are throughout criti-
cal with regard to positions which are proposed
in the literature on Wittgenstein. The first
five essays try to give interpretations of
particular sections of the Philosophical Inves-
tigations The sixth is a critique of one
writer's interpretation of Wittgenstein's later
philosophy. In the last essay the author tries
to make Wittgenstein's later philosophy fruitful
for one field of modern non-classical logic.
Another point of contact is that all the essays
in this volume are connected with the Wittgen-
stein Archives at the University of Bergen. The
essays of Peter Philipp go back to two lectures
which he delivered in Bergen in spring 1992, as
a guest of the Archives and the Institute of
Philosophy. The other essays were written in
Bergen, during the author's stay at the Archives
between October 1991 and December 1992. This
stay was supported by the Alexander von
Humboldt-Foundation (Germany) and the Norwegian
Research Council. I wish to express my thanks
for the opportunity to work at the Archives. But
above all I must acknowledge my gratitude to the
colleagues from the Archives, Claus Huitfeldt,
Ole Letnes, Alois Pichler, and Astrid Castell,
for their generous help. I should also thank
Peter Cripps for his help with the English
proof-reading. Last but far from least I am in-
debted to Prof. Tore Nordenstam (Bergen) and
Prof. Eike von ~avigny (Bielefeld), who agreed
to act as my advisers in this work.
Richard Raatzsch
Bergen, December 1992
Abbreviations for works by Wittgenstein
TLP Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, tr.
D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuiness,
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1961.
BIB and BrB The Blue and the Brown Book, Oxford:
Blackwell, 1958.
OC On Certainty, ed. G.E.M. Anscombe
and G.H. von wright, tr. D. Paul and
G.E.M. Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell,
1969.
PI philosophical ~nvestigations, ed.
G.E.M. Anscornbe and R. Rhees, tr.
G.E.M. Anscornbe, 2nd. edition,
Oxford: Blackwell, 1958.
RoF Remarks on Frazer's 'Golden Bough',
tr. A.C. Miles and R. Rhees, The
H.u. m an World no. 3(May 1971), pp. 28-
Zettel, ed. G.E.M. Anscornbe and G.H.
von Wright, tr. G.E.M. Anscombe,
Oxford: Blackwell, 1967.
Culture and Value, ed. G.H. von
Wright in collaboration with H.
Nyman, tr. P. Winch, Oxford:
Blackwell 1980.
References to unpublished material cited in the
von Wright catalogue (G.H. von Wright, Wittgen-
stein (Oxford: Blackwell, 1982) pp. 35ff.) are
by MS or TS number followed by page number.