M. S. Hacker is Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. He is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, 1980-96) the first two volumes co-authored with G. P. Baker (2nd revised eds, 2003, 2009) and of Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). He has also written extensively on philosophy of mind, including Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), co-authored with M. R. Bennett, and Human Nature: The Categorial Framework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature.
Joachim Schulte teaches philosophy at the University of Zurich. He is also a professional translator, and editor of Wittgenstein's writings. He edited the authoritative critical-genetic edition of Wittgenstein's Philosophische Untersuchungen (Suhrkamp, 2001). He is author of Wittgenstein - an Introduction (1989), Chor und Gesetz: Wittgenstein im Kontext (Suhrkamp,1990), Experience and Expression - Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology (Clarendon Press, 1993), and of many dozens of philosophical papers.
Editorial Preface to the Fourth Edition and Modified Translation
The Text of the Philosophical Investigations
Philosophische Untersuchungen
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophie der Psychologie - Ein Fragment
Philosophy of Psychology - A Fragment
Endnotes
Register
Index
Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy
* The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe's original translation
* Footnoted remarks in the earlier editions have now been relocated in the text
* What was previously referred to as 'Part 2' is now republished as Philosophy of Psychology - A Fragment, and all the remarks in it are numbered for ease of reference
* New detailed editorial endnotes explain decisions of translators and identify references and allusions in Wittgenstein's original text
* Now features new essays on the history of the Philosophical Investigations, and the problems of translating Wittgenstein's text