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program, and understand him to be advocating philosophy as a form of "therapy." Under this interpretation, Wittgenstein's program is dominated by the idea that philosophical problems are symptoms of illusions or "bewitchments by language," and that attempts at a "narrow" solution to philosophical
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There is no unitary "New Wittgenstein" interpretation, and proponents differ deeply among themselves. Philosophers often associated with the interpretation include some who are influential, mostly associated with (although sometimes antagonistic to) the traditions of
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one. These papers have in common an understanding of Wittgenstein as aspiring, not to advance metaphysical theories, but rather to help us work ourselves out of confusions we become entangled in when philosophizing.
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problems, that do not take into account larger questions of how the questioner conducts her life, interacts with other people, and uses language generally, are doomed to failure.
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Wittgenstein's primary aim in philosophy is – to use a word he himself employs in characterizing his later philosophical procedures – a
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While many philosophers have suggested variants of such ideas in readings of the work of
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A Confusion of the Spheres: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion
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Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker
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Wittgenstein, Carnap and the New American Wittgensteinians
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of the New Wittgenstein scholars is not without critics:
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Alice Crary
Rupert Read
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Cora Diamond
Alice Crary
James F. Conant
metaphysical
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later Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
early Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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