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A bold interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later work. It argues that it is Wittgenstein's radically anti-theoretical metaphilosophy - and not his identification of the meaning of a word with its use - that underpins his discussions of specific issues concerning language, the mind, mathematics, knowledge art, and religion

Thomas Kuhn, colleague and friend / Carl G. Hempel -- Carnap, Kuhn, and the philosophy of scientific methodology / John Earman -- Remarks on the history of science and the history of philosophy / Michael Friedman -- Rationality and paradigm change in science / Ernan McMullin -- A mathematicians' mutiny, with morals / J.L. Heilbron -- Science and humanism in the Renaissance : Regiomontanus's Oration on the dignity and utility of the mathematical sciences / N.M. Swerdlow -- Design for experimenting / Jed Z. Buchwald -- Mediations : enlightenment balancing acts, or the technologies of rationalism / M. Norton Wise -- How we relate theory to observation / Nancy Cartwright -- Working in a new world : the taxonomic solution / Ian Hacking -- Afterwords / Thomas S. Kuhn

"Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his Rene; Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other contemporary forms of philosophical naturalism, comparing it with other pragmatist and neo-pragmatist views such as those of Robert Brandom and Simon Blackburn. Linking their different 'expressivist' programmes, Price argues for a radical global expressivism that combines key elements from both. With Paul Horwich and Michael Williams, Brandom and Blackburn respond to Price in new essays. Price replies in the closing essay, emphasising links between his views and those of Wilfrid Sellars. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics"--