Wittgenstein's Metaphysics

Table of Contents

Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. From Idealism to Pure Realism:
1. Wittgenstein's philosophical beginnings
2. Neutral monism
3. The 'objects' of the Tractatus
4. The essence of the world can be shown but not said
5. What the solipsist means is quite correct
6. Pure realism and the elimination of private objects
Part II. The Metaphysics of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy:
7. Wittgenstein's phenomenalism
8. A new philosophical method
9. Wittgenstein's behaviourism
10. Wittgenstein and Kohler
Part III. Causation and Science in a Phenomenal World:
11. Hume on causation
12. Wittgenstein's Humean view of causation
13. The problem of induction
Part IV. Logical Possibilities and the Possibility of Knowledge:
14. Logical possibilities and philosophical method
15. The search for a phenomenalist's theory of knowledge
Part V. The Past, Memory, and the Private Language Argument:
16. Memory, tenses and the past
17. Wittgenstein's analysis of mental states and powers
18. Following a rule
19. The private language argument
20. Names of sensations and the use theory of meaning
Name index
Subject index.

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